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Sections
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Executive Summary
- Being Digital
- A Competitive Digital Communications Infrastructure
- Radio: Going Digital
- Creative Industries in the Digital World
- Public Service Content in Digital Britain
- Research, Education and Skills for Digital Britain
- Digital Security and Safety
- The Journey to Digital Government
- Delivering Digital Britain
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About this site
Being Digital
Living and working in Digital Britain
“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”
Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive, Microsoft
AMBITION: [...]
Current Participation in Digital Britain
11. Today’s products and services are making it easier to enjoy the benefits of new technologies and digital services. More than 1 billion applications have been downloaded on the iPhone worldwide. A quarter of us have watched TV on the Internet. Almost half of the UK population has used the Internet in the last year [...]
→ Read moreOfcom Research: Accessing the Internet at Home
Ofcom’s recent research project, Accessing the Internet at Home - A Quantitative and Qualitative Study Among People without the Internet at Home (by Ipsos Mori) looks at why these people do not have Internet services, and at what price, if any, would they be willing to pay for it and what can be done to [...]
→ Read moreAffordability
24. UK consumers today enjoy some of the lowest communications bills of any in the European Market. Companies such as BSkyB, Carphone Warehouse, Virgin Media, BT and many others offer a huge range of individual products and bundled packages at very competitive prices. The intensively competitive nature of the UK Communications Market means that UK [...]
→ Read moreUK online centres
UK online centres run a network of around 6,000 centres across England, providing people with help and support to access and use computers and the Internet. They were set up in 2000 with funding from the Department for Education and Skills and there are now UK online centres in 82% of areas of high deprivation. [...]
→ Read moreMicrosoft: Affordable Computers in Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes has more than 10,000 disadvantaged citizens within its population of approximately 250,000 people. Milton Keynes Council wanted to provide these citizens with the opportunity to acquire affordable access to technology and help them develop computer skills whilst enhancing their employment prospects and to take advantage of the economic benefits of being online, including [...]
→ Read moreCapability and relevance
33. Capability is about ensuring that all citizens have the opportunity to enjoy the direct benefits of digital technology by equipping people with the skills, motivation and confidence to enhance the quality of their lives.
34. The route to engaging people with the new technologies – and empowering them with the skills, knowledge and confidence they [...]
Users with Disabilities and Digital Britain
Responses to our interim Digital Britain report highlighted the needs of people with disabilities, including people with sight, hearing or dexterity disabilities, learning disabilities and dyslexia, and the potential benefits of new digital technologies to these groups. The key problems identified in the responses were low take-up and lack of accessibility.
Ofcom’s annual consumer experience reports [...]
A national plan for digital participation
41. Alongside the Digital Inclusion work, many Government departments, organisations and other bodies today are involved in a number of initiatives aimed at promoting media literacy.
42. On 16 April, The Media Literacy Working Group, chaired by Stewart Purvis of Ofcom, published its report in response to Action 22 of our Interim Report. Action 22 asked [...]
Getting Britain online
48. As part of driving Digital Participation we must ensure that the offer presented is as compelling as possible and that people are aware of the benefits provided by being online. It is clear that the current offer is not sufficiently exciting to motivate some people to get online. If we are to encourage wider [...]
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