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Digital Divide
Bridging the Digital Divide in UK
Why isn't the government closing the digital divide? From the Newly Asked Questions series by Michael Cross Because it is failing to match high-level policy with funding where it's needed. Martha Lane Fox's appointment as the government's digital inclusion champion was supposed to usher in a new era of coordinated effort to get 6 million "digitally excluded" Britons online by 2012. However, it seems that heads still need to be banged together: last Friday, five UK Online centres set up by a member of Lane Fox's own digital inclusion task force went into liquidation, because funds are not available on the ground to meet the government's high-level aspirations. |
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