Digital innovation will be a key component in delivering the University’s Strategy 2030. Following a two-year University-wide consultation, the Digital Strategy will be published in 2023. A key aim of the Digital Strategy is to identify and address inequalities that exist within our digital environments and progress a more accessible and inclusive campus. This will include action to develop and provide digital and data services that are accessible and useable by the widest possible range of users. Within what is a large programme of work, a dedicated EDI and Ethics workstream was established to allow for focused conversations, consultation and output, including the embedding of EDI and ethical considerations across all workstreams.
Key to the Strategy’s creation and success is ensuring that every member of our community can contribute to the strategy, input their views, thoughts and ideas and thereby help to shape the digital future of the University. Great attention has been paid to ensuring the accessibility of all related materials and consultation methods, and to including those who do not use our digital estate as part of their roles and could be described as digitally disenfranchised. Ongoing development of the University Digital Strategy will be an iterative process, responding to the requirements of our community as we adapt and embrace the opportunities and challenges of the changing digital landscape. The strategy will contribute to progressing Equality Outcomes 2 and 4. The University of Edinburgh Digital Strategy Webpages