Get Online Week

16-22 October

Get Online Week, UK’s biggest annual digital inclusion campaign is run by Good Things Foundation. During the week of 16th-22nd October, community organisations will be hosting free digital skills events to help more people to get online safely, confidently, and affordably. This is incredibly important as 6.9 million people in the UK will remain digitally excluded if nothing is done to help them. Find out more about Get Online Week

https://uk.getonlineweek.com/

Why is Get Online Week important?

• 2.9 billion people are digitally excluded worldwide (ITU, 2021).
• 10.2 million people lack the basic digital skills needed to use the internet (Lloyds Consumer Digital
  Index, 2022).
• 6.9 million people in the UK will remain digitally excluded if nothing is done to help them (Cebr,
  2018).
• 1 in 5 people have stopped using products or services because they’re only available online.
• Three quarters of people would feel cut off from society if they didn’t have access to the internet.