Digital divide still alive and kicking

Notes to editors

• Civic Conferences is a specialist conference development and organisation agency delivering public and social focussed conferences across the UK. Civic Conferences works with a range of partner organisations and draws on the expertise of sister organisations Civic Regeneration, Regenerate IT and Market Squared to support conferences that explore key areas of social, economic and community policy for an audience of the public, private and voluntary sector.
• UK online centres provide people with access to technology and support in using it. There are approximately 6,000 UK online centres across England, which provide free or low cost access to the internet and email, deliver online courses and encourage people to progress onto further learning. An estimated two thirds of those people are from the most deprived wards in England - more than half are not in employment, one in ten has a disability, one in seven is over 65, and one in five is from a minority ethnic group.
• UK online centres are managed by Ufi, the organisation also behind learndirect.