http://www.trefor.net/2009/10/16/martha-lane-fox-queen-of-the-digitally-excluded/ Insider comments from the world of communications Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.trefor.net/2009/10/16/martha-lane-fox-queen-of-the-digitally-excluded/comment-page-1/#comment-1112 cyberdoyle Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:38:20 +0000 http://staging.trefor.net/?p=1671#comment-1112 Glad you like Martha, everyone seems to, so she must be great person. I still feel however that the best way to engage people is to make access to the internet easier. I have been working on this as a volunteer for many years. Currently the majority of connections I come across are crap. Either rural notspots or urban cheap/free/crap ISPs. From an industry standard it should be regulated better. Ofcom just don't get IT. Governments don't get IT. Broadband as a utility just needs to work. And currently unless you live near an exchange and have a good ISP it doesn't. End of. Making it easy to get online is the first stage. You can't demonstrate email and websites to a luddite whose connection keeps dropping off. they aren't impressed. Show them something that loads quickly and is simple and you hook them. They are then digitally engaged. For a digitalbritain to work we need good tools. You can make an old pc rock if you shove it on to a good internet feed. Cloud computing is here. But it needs the feed. Bring on the fibre. Glad you like Martha, everyone seems to, so she must be great person. I still feel however that the best way to engage people is to make access to the internet easier. I have been working on this as a volunteer for many years. Currently the majority of connections I come across are crap. Either rural notspots or urban cheap/free/crap ISPs. From an industry standard it should be regulated better. Ofcom just don’t get IT. Governments don’t get IT.
Broadband as a utility just needs to work. And currently unless you live near an exchange and have a good ISP it doesn’t. End of.
Making it easy to get online is the first stage. You can’t demonstrate email and websites to a luddite whose connection keeps dropping off. they aren’t impressed. Show them something that loads quickly and is simple and you hook them. They are then digitally engaged. For a digitalbritain to work we need good tools. You can make an old pc rock if you shove it on to a good internet feed. Cloud computing is here. But it needs the feed. Bring on the fibre.

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