Digital Poverty: When Access Isn’t Equal

Digital services are increasingly becoming the default way people access healthcare, public services, education and employment support.

But access isn’t equal.

For many communities, digital exclusion is shaped by affordability, connectivity, confidence and wider cost-of-living pressures with real consequences for health outcomes and opportunity.

This event creates space for an open conversation about digital inclusion, practical solutions and how systems and communities can work together to reduce digital inequality.

No assumptions. No blame. Just honest discussion about what works and what still needs to change.

Key questions

• When services become “digital by default”, who gets left behind?

• How do device access, data poverty and affordability affect health and wellbeing?

• What practical solutions are already working locally?

• How do policy and grassroots approaches come together?