A perennial theme of this blog, because it’s a perennial theme from some people we meet. So it was interesting to read this article from the Observer about people who have never used the internet.
It’s a bit of a planted story for the Race Online 2012, but it’s disturbingly novel to hear real accounts from people who haven’t used the web before and the barriers that seemed to stop them. Shame they don’t link to the source for the figure of 10 million people in the UK never having used the web, might chase that one up.
Still though, you’ve got to have half a wonder about what might be achieved if we all understood a bit more about why a minority of people don’t use the web, rather than spending time not taking processes and information online just because some don’t. Perhaps the two might be linked?
