New ‘Digital Divide’ Seen in Wasting Time Online. Bridging the Digital Divide through Innovation. Karen: Next up residents sing kar... Visualizing Data at the Oxford Internet Institute. Oxford Internet Institute - Webcasts. Research. Home. Tackling the Digital Divide. It has been some time since we last blogged about our work relating to Assisted Digital. While we’ve been quiet, we have been busy working with our stakeholders to develop our thinking about the Assisted Digital (supporting access to Digital by Default services) and Digital Inclusion (tackling the issues that prevent everyone getting online) agendas. Of course, during this period, work has also continued on tackling the Digital Divide by encouraging people to get online.
Therefore, it is great to see that the efforts of the Race Online 2012 campaign team and its partners (with Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox at the helm) are making real progress. Recent figures on internet usage (pdf) from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that nearly 300,000 people in the UK went online for the first time during Q3 of 2011. This takes the total number of adults who have been online at least once to 41.6m, equating to over 83% of the population. Gradations_in_digital_inclusion_(LSERO)