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<p>The Government’s Loneliness Strategy stated that government would work with businesses
to stimulate innovative solutions to loneliness across all ages, backgrounds and communities.
To deliver on this commitment, government is engaging with tech businesses to explore
what more can be done. For example, together with the Minister for Digital & Creative
Industries, I recently hosted a roundtable with tech businesses focused on tackling
loneliness using tech. The government is investing £1m in a Tech for Good Challenge
Prize to further stimulate the capability of tech businesses to tackle social isolation.
In April, DCMS started work with Nesta's Challenge Prize Centre to design the competition
with the formal call for participants tentatively scheduled for June 2019. As part
of the research and design of the project, DCMS is working closely with Buddy Hub,
Digital Health and Care Alliance, No Isolation and Vodafone, who have publicly stated
their aims and achievements in tackling loneliness.</p>
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