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Swinging & Flowing: Inclusion & Diaspora
The presentation by Helen Milner discusses the importance of increasing internet usage for digital inclusion in the UK and US, highlighting the need for accessible online services and the positive impacts of internet access on individuals' lives. It details the efforts of UK Online Centres to support over 1 million people in becoming internet users through training and community engagement, along with statistics showing the benefits of internet access in terms of information availability, job opportunities, and overall happiness. The presentation also identifies barriers to internet adoption and proposes that models like the UK's could be useful for improving digital access in the US.
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- 1. Section Divider: Headingintro here. Swinging & Flowing: Inclusion & diaspora Helen Milner Chief Executive, Online Centres Foundation 26 April 2012
- 2. Note: Some ofthe pictures have been deleted from the slide deck originally presented at UC Berkeley on 26 April 2012. I replaced images with text where relevant in order to reduce the size of the file and keep the original data so that none of the meaning has been lost
- 3. 2,271,944,524 Number of internetusers in the world February 2012
- 4. 32.7% That’s 2,271,944,524 asa % of the world population
- 5. % of eachcountry/continent’s own population who are internet users
- 6. Digital Inclusion: US& UK • Between 2009 and 2011 an additional 2% of the US population became internet users – USA 76.3% (Nov 2009) – USA 78.3% (Dec 2011) • Between 2009 and 2011 an additional 7.7% of the UK population became internet users – UK 76.4% (Sept 2009) – 84.1% (Dec 2011)
- 7. UK online centres:a national organisation • Government funded organisation leading, coordinating and supporting a national network of 4,300 venues • Provide: – A learning website for people new to the internet – National campaigns and support local events – Training and grants to train volunteers & centre staff – Some grants to c. 1000 centres & outreach activity p.a. – National partnerships
- 8. Technology + Community+ Scale National + Local
- 9. Smarter Government Announced:December 2009 Started delivery: April 2010 £30m for UK online centres over 3 years to get 1 million more people to become internet users (at about $50 per person)
- 10. Why do weneed to put public services online?
- 11. 1m online for£30m: How are we* doing? * UK online centres 1 April 2010 – 22 April 2012
- 13. People • Need accessto good quality, convenient and reliable information and services – Tax, education, driving, law, benefits, jobs (Gov) – Grocery shopping, learning, news, cheap goods (Life) – Shopping, weather, catch-up TV, hobbies (Leisure) • Need to communicate with friends and family • Need to be part of a community – Local community: development – Collaborating with others beyond local area
- 14.
- 15. Why do wecare who uses internet?
- 16. We’re creating anew inequality Percentage UK population use of the internet Source: ONS 2010
- 17. Internet and peopleslives of Internet Users and Non Users Comparison More confident Self Confidence 4.50 Informed on local affairs Overall happiness 4.00 Happier Connection to family and 3.50 Quality of life friends who aren't local 3.00 Better quality of life Confidence expressing Ease of organising views to key social gatherings decision makers Confidence talking to different Informed on current affairs people on different subjects Skills to get a new job More informed Confident of their skills to get a new job Internet user Internet non-user “Does the internet improve lives?” Freshminds April, 2009
- 18. Comparison online and UK before centres users lives – before and after after using the internet I do not feel concerned about my levels of qualifications, training or skills Feel less concerned n=75 about skills, work 100% and health 80% 60% I do not feel concerned I communicated as much about my work position as I would like to with friends n=51 40% Communicate 20% more 0% I communicated as much I do not feel concerned about as I would have liked my health with my family n=75 Feel more connected to local community I felt part of my local community "Yes" Before "Yes" After “Does the internet improve lives?” Freshminds April, 2009
- 19. In the UK •£276 savings a year by being online for the households with the lowest income • 25% of all new jobs advertised only online
- 20. In the US •80% of Fortune 500 companies have online only job applications • Students with broadband at home achieve 6 – 8% higher high school graduation rates
- 21. How do UKemployers feel about IT skills? • 72% of employers wouldn't even interview entry level candidates who didn't have basic IT skills ICM/UK online centres survey, February 2012
- 22. The internet makesyou happier than money • The BCS research found that: ‘IT has a direct positive impact on life satisfaction, even when controlling for income and other factors known to be important in determining well-being’ Source: The Information Dividend: Why IT makes you ‘happier’, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT by Trajectory Partnership, September 2010
- 23. 100m Americans donot have home broadband
- 24. 66m Americans aredigitally illiterate
- 25. Who is offlinein the UK? (has NEVER used the internet – UK population)
- 26. Who is offlinein the USA? 1 in 5 American adults do not use the internet Source: Pew “Digital Differences”, 13 April 2012
- 27. Isource: Internet WorldStats http://www.internetworldstats.com/unitedstates.htm#MA
- 28. Similar stats • Missippi59.3% (June 2010), Lithuania 59.5% (March 2008) – (Gates Foundation invested $15.2m in Oct 2007 for four years in internet in libraries in Lithuania) • Alabama 65% (June 2010), Hungary 65.3 (Dec 2011) • USA 78.3%, France 77.2 (both Dec 2011) • UK 84.1%, Norway 97.2%, Australia 90%
- 29. • Main reasondon’t use the internet is lack of interest in both US (31%) and UK (64%) • In the US internet adoption has leveled off • In both countries the rate of use by people already online is increasing rapidly Source of 64%: Ofcom UK Adults’ Media Literacy Report, 2011 Source of 31%: Pew “Digital Differences”, 13 April 2012
- 30. USA, % adultswho use the internet, by race/ethnicity Source: Pew “Digital Differences”, 13 April 2012
- 31. USA, % adultswho use the internet, by annual household income Source: Pew “Digital Differences”, 13 April 2012
- 32. Why is theresuch a difference? • Between 2009 and 2011 an additional 2% of the US population became internet users • Between 2009 and 2011 an additional 7.7% of the UK population became internet users
- 33. Could the USachieve more? Are there things to copy from the UK model?
- 34. There are threemain barriers why more people don’t more go online? Freshminds 2007 and 2009
- 36. Pubs Broadband Minister opening a centre in a barn Community centres and events Cafes … and churches, libraries, mosques, youth groups, mobile 3,800 Community Partners + 500 Access Points
- 37. 3800 Community Partners + 500 Access Points • All independent • Not owned, managed or directly funded by us • Not a franchise • Sign up to a minimum offer of free support and access for learning and use of the internet • All reflect the local community they are in
- 38. The centres areindependent of us, and represent the community they are in Broadband take-up by area varies from 50% to 80% *IMD = Indices of Multiple Deprivation
- 39. Example centre websitesreplaced orginal graphics: • Pakastan Welfare Association http://www.pwaslough.org.uk/ • Bangladeshi Islamic Centre: http://bicentre.org.uk/ • Somali Centre of Golden Opportunities http://www.somaligolden.org.uk/ • Bangladesh Youth & Cultural Shomiti http://www.bycs.org.uk/ • Migrants Resource Centre http://www.migrantsresourcecentre.org.uk/
- 40. Monthly user surveyApril 2011 – February 2012 Aged 65+ Unemployed % Disabled % BAME % % North East 33,835 48 20 8 18 West Midlands 92,950 40 23 31 19 Yorkshire and the Humber 48,530 32 27 11 26 North West 76,368 33 29 20 21 East Midlands 25,093 37 26 15 23 South West 20,918 29 33 5 30 East of England 24,555 27 29 10 29 South East 38,685 33 31 17 29 London 99,835 32 13 64 12 England (all learners) 460,768 34 26 23 21
- 41. Why would acommunity organisation want to be a UK online centre?
- 42. 1. Online learninggames and courses for people who have no or little internet skills or confidence
- 45. Our digital literacycontent: New improvements • Will make our learning environment mobile and tablet friendly • XML based course engine allows for quick translation & localisation • Use of HTML5 local storage will enable completion of courses when no internet connection is present and synchronisation back to the server when internet is present
- 46. 2. Training forstaff and volunteers
- 47. Supporting Volunteers andDigital Champions ● Supported and trained over 3000 volunteers in 2011/12 ● Online Become a Digital Champion course ● Supporting your community to get online workshops We held a Supporting your community workshop at our City Library, e had lots of opportunity to network and gain fresh approaches to lunteer working – would highly recommend and very much worth ganising for our staff and volunteers " Sarah Graham - Project Officer Newcastle Libraries
- 48. 3. Web andfreephone search facility
- 50. • And thecentre search is syndicated as an API and a widget to other websites such as BT (a national telephone and broadband supplier) and Gov.uk the new Government domain
- 51. 4. Being partof a network – marketing events, facebook, twitter, link to national partners & policy
- 52. Partnership campaigns &events
- 53. For example, Getonline week • Annual event for 5 years (each Autumn) • 50,000 people got online during Get Online Week all together in 2007, 2008, and 2009 • 90,000 people in 2010 during Get Online ‘Month’ • Mass publicity (newspapers, television, radio interviews, corp partner links, blogs, social media) • Mass coordinated marketing packs – locally delivered • Local events – over 1500 events in 2010
- 54. Three national marketingcampaigns a year, supported with local marketing packs
- 56. • We alsohave a twitter account @ukonlinecentres • And a YouTube channel UKonlinecentresvideos
- 57. 5. And wegive out some grants
- 58. Connect 2 Compete:C2C • The US solution? • $4bn public-private-non profit initiative • A national platform for digital opportunity • Including low cost broadband and computer, and digital literacy content
- 60. Or, are smartphones the answer? % American adults who go online wirelessly with laptop or cell phone Source: Pew “Digital Differences”, 13 April 2012
- 61. Technology changes everythingand changes nothing
- 62. Technology has alreadyrevolutionised the way most of us live our lives The goal is not to get people using technology, it’s about the how people use technology to have a positive, and transformative, impact on their and others’ lives
- 63. 983,682 Finish the 1mpeople online and save the UK Government £127m net (that’s $205m net)
- 66. It’s not abouttechnology, it’s all about people
- 67. Thank You [email protected] @helenmilner ontwitter www.ukonlinecentres.com www.go-on.co.uk
Editor's Notes
- #2 I want to give three cheers for international women everywhere – My first woman I want to raise a glass to is Betty ….
- #10 This argument was then picked up by Gordon Brown and led to UK online centres being awarded £30m to an additional 1m people online between 2010-2013
- #15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_VVZLAsjUw
- #18 25% more confident that they have the skills to get a new job http://www.ukonlinecentres.com/corporate/content/view/11/112/lang,en/
- #19 http://www.ukonlinecentres.com/corporate/content/view/11/112/lang,en/
- #37 Working closely with almost 4000 community partners – in pubs, community centres, cafes, churches, libraries, mosques, buses, etc
- #39 It’s appropriate for us to now focus on the people who are in most need to get online and get digital skills. The people who are the most excluded are: older people; disable people; and people from the most disadvantaged communities (such as the 10% most disadvantaged measured by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation). So we will develop three specialist networks, one for each of these groups – we will do this so that we can promote these centres in a more targeted way, ensure that we work with the right national and local partners, and we will develop new services so that they can achieve more focusing on talking to learners in these excluded groups so that we can prioritise investment on the services that will have greatest impact.
- #45 Splash & Grab is an example game we’ve produced
- #53 We do that in centres and through national partnership campaigns
- #55 People are supported by digital champions – at home by family, and in centres by thousands of volunteers
- #63 Benefits vs risks