The government is allowing millions of citizens to fall behind due to digital exclusion, the House of Lords has warned. As services move online at an unprecedented rate, the report by the Lords communications and digital committee found significant numbers lacking the means and skills needed to get online. The cost of living crisis has exacerbated affordability issues, with up to 1 million people cutting off their broadband due to their finances, while half of people over 75 lacked basic digital skills. Some young people are doing homework at church youth groups because they can’t access the internet at home. The House of Lords is urging the Prime Minister to take urgent action to tackle digital exclusion as 2.4 million people cannot complete a single digital task and five million will be digitally under-skilled by 2030. Pray that the disabled, aged, and socio-economically challenged may have the help they need.
Digital exclusion
Written by David Fletcher 07 Jul 2023Additional Info
- Pray: for the Lords report to successfully prod the PM to update the last digital exclusion strategy - it was produced in 2014. (1 Corinthians 14:40)
- More: www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/jun/29/uk-government-allowing-millions-to-fall-behind-due-to-digital-exclusion