Many people will have seen the report on Digital Britain and what our Government wants from it in the relatively near future. Everyone to have fast broadband (good idea but not necessarily affordable), more Government services to be available online, that sort of thing. There's a discussion and feedback forum open here for any fellow Brits who want to take part.
Except...
Surely the people to whom this sort of forum needs to be talking are the ones who can't actually get at it yet? OK, there will be interest groups who can indeed log on through a decent web connection. Employers will want to have some sort of input about how IT-literate they anticipate their workforce will need to be, I accept that. Local Government will want input, along with local providers from the business community, about how the aims are going to be achieved logistically and sensibly.
I can see all that. But there is a bigger question to be asked of a different group of people. Internet is commonplace in the UK, and if you can't afford it you can get online in a public library, usually free of charge.
So if the cost isn't an obstacle there must be other reasons particular groups of people aren't logging on. Those are the ones Digital Britain needs to address. And it's not going to get to them through a website - they're not online.