Getting all Britons online would save billions, says Martha Lane Fox
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 13/10/2009 18:09
The founder of lastminute.com, Martha Lane Fox, has unveiled an ambitious policy to get everyone in Britain online by 2012, backed by a study that says it would save the government up to £1bn annually in customer service costs and boost the economy by more than £20bn.
Lane Fox, who is now chair of the government-created Digital Inclusion Task Force, says that getting the 10m Britons who have never used the internet to go online could generate at least £22.6bn in economic benefit - including at least £10.6bn over the lifetimes of the 1.6m children who have never used it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/12/digital-inclusion-martha-lane-fox
