Is innovation fair? Has the internet revolution resulted in more social justice and equality for everyone in society?Not according to Helen Milner, the managing director of UK Online Centres, an organisation that works with both the public and private sectors to bring technology to everyone in the UK. Last Tuesday evening, I had the great privilege to attend an invitation-only Channel 4-sponsored debate entitled “Recasting The Net” chaired by Charlie Beckett of the London School of Economics’s Polis institute, which featured Milner, Channel 4 open-source idealist Tom Loosemore and the surprisingly wired editor of the ancient Spectator magazine, Matthew d’Ancona.
www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/andrew-keen-it-is-up-to-the-unwired-class-to-get-online-and-save-themselves-1699131.html
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