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Evidence snapshot for Reading
Get Online Reading operates drop-in digital skills sessions across Reading's libraries and community venues to help residents without internet access or digital skills, despite the town being headquarters to major tech companies like Microsoft and Symantec. The practice indicates that some areas of Reading have internet access rates worse than the UK average, though the evidence provides no quantified figures on the scale of digital exclusion or outcomes from the intervention. Microsoft Soundscape was developed by Microsoft's Reading team in partnership with Guide Dogs UK from 2014, but this practice addresses the app's design and retirement rather than conditions in Reading itself.
Drawn from: ECMWF's AIFS — Europe's Weather Agency Puts an AI Model Into Daily Operational Forecasting · Microsoft Soundscape — A 3D Audio Navigation App's Rise, Retirement and Open-Source Afterlife · RAPL (Remote Assessment Project London) · Get online Reading
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evidence of impact / measured public value +43 pts 100 here · 57 average
Scalability beyond pilot +38 pts 100 here · 62 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Weaknesses
Documented learning -41 pts 33 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach -42 pts 33 here · 76 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -45 pts 33 here · 78 average
Evaluation evidence -49 pts 0 here · 49 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Reading. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
ECMWF's AIFS — Europe's Weather Agency Puts an AI Model Into Daily Operational Forecasting · 80
Microsoft Soundscape — A 3D Audio Navigation App's Rise, Retirement and Open-Source Afterlife · 36
RAPL (Remote Assessment Project London) · 32
Get online Reading · 32
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