Digital Literacy Training for seniors

Being online is increasingly important for modern life, but as many as one in four older people do not regularly use the internet. The Office has delivered the Digital Literacy Training for Seniors programme since 2019. 

Budget 2022 allocated additional funding of $1.341 million over three years to continue and expand the programme, as part of the Government’s commitment to implement the Better Later life Strategy which you can read here.

The priorities for the expansion of the Digital Literacy Training for Seniors programme were to:

• support 5,000 more participants to learn essential digital skills

 • target older population groups at greater risk of digital exclusion

• improve the sustainability of digital training programmes for older people.

The Office partnered with the Ministry for Pacific Peoples, which will deliver up to 450 digital devices in support of the delivery of the digital training for older Pacific People.