About this year’s edition
Welcome to the first edition of The Impact Issue. This is Nominet’s new annual rundown of how our work is benefitting society. If you are a member or have purchased a .UK domain, you helped make all of this possible.
We’ve taken a streamlined approach to our Annual Report and Accounts – so we’ve made sure The Impact Issue brings you up to speed on the way Nominet contributes to society.
We’ve recently announced that in the years ahead we’ll be focusing more closely on our registry and DNS expertise, and that includes how we select and fund our public benefit programmes. As our four flagship public benefit programmes that have run over the last few years are coming to an end, it’s fantastic to see the results, and you will get to read about plenty of those stories in this edition – with all of these initiatives delivering a legacy in their own way.
There’s the inspirational story of former submarine navigator and his journey to becoming a digital entrepreneur, thanks to our Click Start programme, in association with the Institute of Coding. You can also find out just how far our micro:bit – the next gen programme has spread across the UK, made possible by our funding. This initiative also picked up its first trophy at a prestigious technology award event. We’re also looking back over the last three years of our support for the UK Safer Internet Centre, and how this tackles the online harms that affect many of us – but receives limited funding.
While Nominet members have helped make all of this possible, we also look at the work of our Members’ GiveHub, which made 18 grants in the last year, and can support even more worthy causes in the future.
Looking ahead – there’s lots to come, including an exciting new public benefit funding initiative focused closer to home on the technology that powers the internet. We look forward to telling you more about that when we’re able.
I hope you’ll agree that we cover a lot of ground in the pursuit of playing a positive role in the digital economy and our society at large.
– Paul Fletcher, Nominet CEO
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