Explore Challenges
- 13 OCTOBER 2010: Plastic pollution in the oceans
- 1 DECEMBER 2010: Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
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Digital Divide in the UK? : Focus
Interview with Lord David Puttnam
Watch an interview with Lord David Puttnam, discussing the importance of the internet and IT skills.
16th February, 2010- more »
Martha Lane Fox
Read excepts of Martha Lane Fox's speech, discussing her role as Digital Champion, the importance of engagement and the ways the government are helping to get the 4 million most disadvantaged people in the UK online.
Tanya Byron
Read excepts of Professor Tanya Byron's speech, discussing the ways younger people use the internet and understanding the risks and benefits involved. Explaining the digital divide between children and parents.
Professor Michael Hulme discusses the internet and the digital divide in the UK
Professor Michael Hulme, Director of the Social Futures Observatory, discusses the internet and the digital divide in the UK
- 16th November, 2009
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Meet the Panel - Digital divide in the UK
Read the biographies of our expert panel discussing the threat of a growing digital divide in the UK, including Martha Lane Fox, Professor Tanya Byron and Rory Cellan-Jones.
- 8th October, 2009
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Interview with Peter Oakley a.k.a YouTube’s geriatric1927
Peter Oakley, better known by his pseudonym geriatric1927 on the popular video sharing website YouTube, is an inspiring figure for older people who are looking to engage with the online world, proving that the internet is for everyone.
- 5th October, 2009
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