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- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- 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 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- more »
Reasons for digital exclusion
Read about the variety of reasons why people are digitally excluded
The Digital Inclusion Task Force
Read about the government's Digital Inclusion Task Force, headed up by Martha Lane Fox, who are working to creating better education, health, governmental and social opportunities for the most socially and digitally excluded people in the UK
Digital divide in the UK?
The internet's reach into many of our daily lives is growing rapidly. But with an estimated
10 million people still not online in the Britian, are we in danger of leaving some sections of society behind?
- 1st September, 2009
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