The UK’s Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox has launched an ambitious manifesto aiming to bring the whole of the UK workforce online before the end of this Parliament. She hopes to achieve this vision by making the most of the skills, networks and equipment we already have by recycling kit, joining up existing infrastructure and exploit the assets and the skills that we already have.
In setting out the compelling reasons why we need to enable and encourage everyone to enjoy the benefits of being online Martha Lane Fox says;
We need to be ambitious, ‘think internet first’ when we design services, and put the needs of the hardest to reach at the heart of industry, charity and government. There is a social and moral case to make sure more people are online but there is a clear economic case too. We will all be better off when everyone is online.
