Government drive to get 7.5 million more people online
Older people and the less well-off are to be the target of an ambitious campaign to get 7.5 million new internet users online by 2014, Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain announced today.
The government has set a target to get 60% of the 12.5 million people who are not online in the UK, online in the next four years. The target underpins a new drive to reduce the digital divide in the government's National Digital Participation Plan, published today.
The Plan sets out the benefits of being online, and provides a framework for existing and emerging digital participation projects to drive a more inclusive Digital Britain.
The National Plan for Digital Participation is available to view from the Department for Business, Innovations & Skills in PDF format, and comes as a result of one of the recommendations in the Digital Britain Report published in June 2009.
Source: e-skills
Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills