[LINK] Race Online 2012 - UK Govt Initiative to Get Everyone Online

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Rick Welykochy wrote:
> George Bray wrote:
> 
>> Race Online 2012 is a challenge to everyone in the UK. Our ambition is
>> to make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use
>> the web.
> 
> There are heaps of people in the UK and elsewhere that will never
> be able to use the web. Access to the web is one thing. Using is
> another.
> 

Given that Internet access would be a prerequisite for Web 
access,
the June 2010 Internet Access stats show the UKat 82.5% has 
to first
catch up with the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Luxumbourg,
Iceland (97.6 %), Denmark and Norway
> Internet User Statistics & Population for
> 53 European countries and regions
<http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm#european>

Australia is just behind UK at 80.1 % and NZ ahead at 85.4 %
<http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats6.htm>	

Does wireless access count as online?

Marghanita
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