We were honoured to welcome Rebecca Stephens, Deputy Director of Digital and Tech Policy, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, at our Digital Inclusion Conference. Watch the full speech above and hear how the government plans to tackle the digital divide with the latest guidance and policy.
Statistics from the UK Parliament in 2023 found that:
- 2.4m people are still unable to complete a single basic digital task to get online.
- 5m workers will be acutely under-skilled in basic digital skills by 2030.
- 1.7m households have no broadband or mobile internet access.
- £63bn is lost each year to the UK economy each year due to overall digital skills shortages.
- 1m people have cut back or cancelled their internet packages in the last year due to affordability issues.
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