[LINK] OII News: Costing Digital Exclusion: An Online Deliberation

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Roger Clarke wrote:
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> 
> In 2009, the National Audit Office (NAO) commissioned a team from the 
> OII and the LSE to design a methodology for costing the impact of 
> digital exclusion. We estimated indicators of financial harm as a 
> result of digital exclusion to certain key groups: the low-income 
> unemployed, the elderly and disabled, and the educationally 
> disadvantaged. The economic 'benefits foregone' through the exclusion 
> of these groups were then used to calculate the financial benefits - 
> to individuals, government and the economy - of government 
> intervention to tackle digital exclusion.
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Just yesterday, I submitted comments to the NSW Government
Metropolitan strategy regarding the role of libraries in the
community and designing communities for disabled and
elderly access under better land use:
<http://ramin.com.au/eco-sydney/comments-on-metro-strategy.shtml#blu>

Marghanita
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Marghanita da Cruz
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Tel: 0414-869202