{"id":3636,"date":"2025-10-21T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/annual-report-2024-25\/digital-champions-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:28:47","slug":"digital-champions-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/annual-report-2024-25\/digital-champions-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Champions 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Helping people with intellectual disability be confident and safe online&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Down Syndrome Australia (DSA) is working with <a href=\"https:\/\/goodthingsaustralia.org\/people\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Good Things Australia<\/strong><\/a> to close the digital divide for people with intellectual disability.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People with disability are more at risk of being digitally excluded. This project is helping everyone use technology more safely and confidently. Being confident online helps people connect, learn and take part in their communities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is one way we&#8217;re working towards improving quality of life and building capacity within the Down syndrome community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Overview&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>DSA has employed 10 Digital Champions with intellectual disability from across Australia. They have completed digital literacy training covering:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How to support people with intellectual disability to learn digital skills&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Online safety tips and tricks&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Essential digital skills for work&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resources to help others&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Digital Champions are now teaching community organisations and support workers how to help people with intellectual disability use technology safely. Training runs online and face-to-face until 30 June 2026.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Highlights&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-maroon-color\">10 Digital Champions<\/mark><\/strong> trained and employed\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-maroon-color\">212 people<\/mark><\/strong> already educated on supporting people with intellectual disability online\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/goodthingsaustralia.org\/digital-mentor-library\/bridge-the-digital-divide-learn-resources\/?_content_type=games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>3 co-designed online games<\/strong><\/a> available on the Good Things Australia website\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Learn more about the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/digital-champions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Champions<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping people with intellectual disability be confident and safe online&nbsp; Down Syndrome Australia (DSA) is working with Good Things Australia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3640,"parent":3518,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"17453,20810,31780,29776,10955,31926","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"state":[],"class_list":["post-3636","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3636\/revisions\/4027"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}