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What’s the point of digital inclusion?

What’s the point of digital inclusion?

By Geraldine Bedell on 26 May, 2010

Seventy per cent of people aged over 65 in the UK have never used the internet. In a time when personal communication, social networking and the supply of services is being revolutionized by technology, older people are being largely excluded. The Government is concerned enough about this to have introduced a panoply of initiatives to [...]

Posted in Blog, Design, Technology | Tagged Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Cisco, community, digital exclusion, Independent Age, Kevin Johnson, OFCOM, older people | 11 Responses

Seva Singh Mandla

Looking back to look forward

By Geraldine Bedell on 28 April, 2010

In a large kitchen, 20 women are ranged around two large tables, making chapattis. Their average age is in the mid 70s and they come here every day. Anyone can turn up and the women will feed them. They provide lunch for hundreds, making enough food to ensure that anyone who comes can be fed [...]

Posted in Blog, Work | Tagged community, European Regional Development Fund, isolation, MORI, volunteers | 1 Response

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