The UK's lack of technology skills costs us £63bn in lost GDP each year. To combat this, Cisco recently launched its digital skills manifesto, a pledge aimed at helping 250,000 people improve their digital know-how by 2020.
In this episode, Cisco's head of CSR, Kathryn Baddeley, discusses their role in helping prisoners acquire new skills and experiences (05:22), gender balance in technology (10:38), and the planning behind the manifesto (16:10).
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