A new high-profile Digital Champion will help promote the Government’s Digital Inclusion agenda, the Minister for Digital Inclusion Paul Murphy announced today (Friday, 24 October).
The creation of an independent Digital Champion is one of the key proposals to achieve greater digital inclusion included within the new cross-Government report ‘Delivering Digital Inclusion: An Action Plan for Consultation‘, published today. Around 17 million people in the UK today are excluded from the digital revolution, with no access or experience of the Internet and other digital technologies. Launching the Action Plan at Holborn Library’s UK online centre as part of the National Get online Day, Paul Murphy said: “Technology and the Internet are now woven into the fabric of our society. However, we cannot ignore the fact that those who are socially excluded are much less likely to have access to and benefit from technology. “Digital inclusion aims to create a fair society and bring social and economic benefits to individuals, communities and the economy as a whole. It is the links between social and technological disadvantage that makes digital inclusion a priority today.”

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24 October 2008
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