Economic Benefit of Helping Digitally Excluded is £22 billion

According to report findings issued today by Martha Lane Fox, Champion for Digital Inclusion, the economic benefits as well as the social and cultural benefits of digital inclusion can now be quantified.

Almost on in five children in the UK is, according to the report which you can see topline results of here, digitally excluded.

Having made a financial case for change, it will be interesting to see how these issues go on to be  addressed.

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