Good practice Imported

The Digital Garage

United Kingdom · Sheffield · Transnational · See the United Kingdom profile

Details

Promoter: Good Things Foundation, Google — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems, Marginalised young people and children
People targeted: 10000
Period: 2016-06-30
Keywords: digital skills, courses, tools, bus

Description

The Digital Garage is an online learning platform and a real life bus. The latter is equipped with all the latest technology, alongside expert trainers, which provides an accessible way for people to learn how to improve their digital skills. Good Things Foundation has partnered with Google to bring the Digital Garage programme to the Online Centres Network and the people in their communities. Visitors to the bus will be able to join courses on how to build a CV, social media strategy, and other areas to improve their digital skills. Small businesses, sole traders and people setting up businesses are supported to make the most of Digital Garage resources so they can find a new job, set-up a new business, or make their businesses more efficient and profitable.

Context: Good Things Foundation has partnered with Google to bring the Digital Garage programme to the Online Centres Network and the people in their communities.

Stakeholders involved: Insufficient Information

Key learning points: NEI.

Evaluation: No

Information sources: https://www.business-live.co.uk/technology/google-brings-digital-garage-bus-16421022

Read the full analysis: https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

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Quality score: 32/100

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Top 98% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach0/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning0/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. The Digital Garage. Persistent ID: c8bc368f-5257-43a5-a997-edd99aa3f381.

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