Hello everyone,

Yesterday the UK's House of Lords (unelected second chamber of parliament) Select Committee on Digital Skills published its report, called Make or Break.

The report contains a lot of recommendations for the future of digital skills in the UK. There's plenty in there relevant to our movement and Wikimedia UK is going to be trying to make use of those recommendations to promote free an open knowledge as an important factor in the development of digital literacy skills.

We published a response to the report here - https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/02/response-to-the-house-of-lords-select-committee-on-digital-skills-report/ - the link also contains further links to the original report and other resources.

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

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Stevie Benton
Head of External Relations
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
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