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Explains the U3A Digital Mentoring Program and PEER model, showing how peer-based support can help older adults build digital confidence, skills and independence.

Shares a call for research contributions exploring ageing, technology and digital inclusion, supporting wider academic collaboration and the development of evidence in this growing field.

Explores the double-edged role of digital technology in later life, showing how it can strengthen connection and participation while also creating barriers that contribute to isolation.

Explains the research behind Shaping Connections' interactive tools and how they help older adults and organisations explore perceived risk, confidence and other barriers to digital inclusion.

A snapshot of Shaping Connections research, publications, partnerships and project activity during 2023, showing how the program continued to build evidence and practical impact around digital inclusion.

Shows how community events and lived experiences can create practical opportunities for older adults to build digital confidence, learn from others and engage with technology in supportive settings.

Looks at how older adults are using social media and digital platforms, and what growing participation reveals about digital skills, confidence and the diversity of older technology users.

Explores how older adults develop digital skills through formal learning, lived experience and social support, and why confidence and ongoing learning are central to digital participation.

Explores research identifying different pathways through which older adults learn, adopt and build confidence with digital technology, including peer learning and self-directed socialisation.

Explores differences in digital capability across the workforce and why inclusive workplace strategies should recognise varied experience, confidence and learning needs rather than assume one level of digital competence.

A practical guide to understanding why digital participation depends on more than skills, including confidence, perceived risk and the social influences that shape how older adults engage with technology.

Highlights the value of sharing Australian digital inclusion research internationally and building research networks focused on older adults, technology and more inclusive participation.

Introduces the Shaping Connections website as a central place to discover the program's research, resources, projects and practical work supporting digital inclusion for older adults.

Explains what connectedness means in later life and how digital technology can both strengthen relationships and participation and contribute to exclusion when confidence, access or support are limited.

Looks at how international research collaboration and knowledge exchange can strengthen understanding of digital inclusion and improve approaches to supporting older adults in a rapidly changing digital environment.

Explains how to use the Shaping Connections interactive tools to explore digital confidence, literacy and technology experiences, and to support reflection by older adults and organisations.

Explores the barriers older adults can face with digital technology, from perceived risks and confidence to learning, and how co-designed approaches can support greater digital inclusion.