October 23, 2004
Push to win over net 'refuseniks'
BBC NEWS | Technology | Push to win over net 'refuseniks'
The Alliance for Digital Inclusion has been charged with finding ways of persuading the 48% of refuseniks to use the net and other new technologies
Speaking of BBC Online and its juvenile attitude to digital inclusion in the UK, this particular article must take the cake. Calling those who aren't online "refuseniks" is about as patronising as you can possibly be. Could it be that many of those who aren't online can't go online because they can't read...?
For more on the wonderfully backwards British attitude to learning and literacy, you need only go here.
