b'12 Member News July 2021The future of engineeringDigital Poverty Alliance (DPA): The voice of digital povertyThe DPAs vision is simple, to live in a world which enables everyone to have an equal and sufficient opportunity to the life changing benefits that digital brings. Its mission is to create a global community of organisations, active across all areas of the digital divide, collaborating and uniting under a commoncause to end digital poverty for all. IET Education around the worldWere a global organisationand theIET Education department is no different! We want to support teachers and parents wherever they are in the world in bringing The IET is delighted to beand families, who do notSTEM to their students and children, so a founding partner of thehave the digital means towe have created a brand-new webpage to Digital Poverty Allianceaccess our STEM education (DPA). Our charitableinitiatives and resources,showcase our resources with a global appeal. objectives, as set out inand are unable to engage the IETs Royal Charter, iswith us and learn aboutOur collection of STEMcovering the festivals of to promote the generalthe exciting opportunitiesteaching resources, partnerChinese New Year, Ramadan advancement of science,a career in engineering andactivities and information onand Diwali. engineering and technologytechnology offers. Tacklingthe programmes that we run and to facilitate thethe digital divide is such anoutside of the UK, are for ourOur IET China and IET India exchange of informationimportant task that no oneinternational Local Networksoffices have shared that and ideas on these subjectsorganisation can do alone andand offices (IET China and IETthe response to our new amongst the members ofwill require a community ofIndia) to share with schools,international resources has the IET and otherwise.likeminded organisations andteachers and parents, to helpbeen extremely positive, Fundamental to this isgovernment working togetherthem make the most of whatand we hope to add to this engagement with children,to bring an end to the digitalIET Education has to offer. phased approach later in the in order to inspire anddivide. The DPA provides ayear as we create an exclusive develop the engineers andAs well as Primary andlanding page for each country, technicians of tomorrow.home and an opportunity Secondary resources, likewhich will have resources to unite all the excellent lesson plans, classroom activityspecially selected for each As we move more towardswork already being done ideas and handouts, wevecountries requirements, a digital future, it is vital weso together, we can tacklealso created a number ofincluding country-specific play our part in supportingthis issue once and for all. new diverse and internationalcurriculum links and a range those, in particular Nigel Fine, IET Chiefresources, such as thoseof languages covered. disadvantaged childrenExecutive and SecretaryFind out more on the IET Education website atTo find out more information, visiteducation.theiet.org/iet-education-around-the-world digitalpovertyalliance.org For any enquiries, get in touch with the IET Educationteam on ieteducation@theiet.org'