Broadband Internet for the Poorest Britons
In a move to bring all sections of the society online, the Government’s new Digital Inclusion Champion, Martha Lane Fox, has announced that she would target the poorest 6 million Britons for providing broadband internet connections and bringing them into the mainstream digital revolution.
Digital Inclusion Champion is a new post announced in the government’s recently released Digital Britain report. Addressing the audience in her first speech at Reboot Conference, London, she explained the rationale behind providing broadband internet to the bottom one fourth of Britons by describing the step as a welfare measure. The fact that the government is well aware of these underprivileged people and their whereabouts should make the task easier for the government.
Fox has decided to devote two days of every a week for the government’s Digital Inclusion project over the next two years. Elucidating her plan, she mentioned that if the last 25 percent of people are online, then the government’s communication costs of reaching out to them would be greatly reduced, because a majority of the government’s work and interaction involves this section of the society.
BBC reports that Fox has been visiting various UK Online Centres to reach out to the new users of the internet. Her recent developments and works on the project can be obtained on her Twitter page at twitter.com/Marthalanefox. Or for a more unbiased look at the situation, or for information on your ISP, a dedicated broadband site is a good place to look at for provider reviews and news from the likes of O2 broadband and the other top internet service providers.
