'Make it Digital' campaign and Micro Bit hardware launch position BBC as 'megaphone' for UK tech skills deficit

Charlee Gothard
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Micro Bit mini computer also launched as Beeb attempts to fill 5,000 national tech jobs

The BBC has launched a national IT literacy campaign called "Make it Digital", along with a new micro-computer called the Micro Bit, in a scheme Google MD Eileen Naughton described as "using the me...

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