Digital Inclusion

LONDON - - Digitally excluded households are missing out on average savings of GBP560 per year from shopping and paying bills online - The most economically disadvantaged families are missing out on savings of over GBP1billion - 1.6 million children in digitally excluded families could increase their lifetime earnings by GBP10.8billion - Unemployed people who get online could increase their lifetime earnings by over GBP12,000 - If 5% of digitally excluded unemployed could find work by using job websites it would deliver an estimated GBP560million to the UK economy - Internet savvy workers can earn an average increase in lifetime earnings of over GBP8,000 - Government could save at least GBP900 million a year in customer contact costs if all digitally excluded adults got online and made just one electronic contact per month (Logo: More than 10 million adults across the UK have never used the internet, and worryingly 4 million of this group are also socially excluded.