ICT bridging the digital divide

The e-Learning Foundation, the only national charity dedicated to erasing the digital divide in the UK by ensuring disadvantaged children have access to technology for their studies at home as well as at school, has launched its latest grants round to schools.
http://www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk/news/national-charity-works-on-the-digital-divide
Lloyd’s Charities Trust has donated £50,000 to the e-Learning Foundation, to provide access to computing at home for children in low-income families

October 30 2008: The e-Learning Foundation, a national charity working to close the
digital divide in the UK, welcomes the Government’s cash injection of £300 million over the
next two years for a home access and believes that, if executed correctly, the programme
could potentially eliminate the digital divide for the country’s current generation of learners.The £300 million programme, which was announced by the Prime Minister Gordon Brownlast month, is scheduled to go nationwide next autumn, providing home access to everyfive-to-19 year old by 2011.

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