Paul Taylor

Digital Inclusion

  • Society Has Digital Transformed, But It Isn’t Evenly Distributed

    We often blame innovations for the way they make our lives faster, busier, more intrusive, but in reality our core human behaviours and beliefs are slow to change. Marchetti’s constant, named after Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti, is the principle that… Continue reading

    Society Has Digital Transformed, But It Isn’t Evenly Distributed

  • The Connected Homeless

    “It’s amazing how nice their Smartphones are. Some would actually go without food rather than lose their Smartphone.” This quote is from a manager of a homelessness hostel.  Someone who has observed up close that, for the Connected Generation ,… Continue reading

  • Digital Myths

    How confident are you using the internet? On a scale of 1 to 10. And how confident would you say the average user of social housing is? Last week , I posted about the myth of social housing residents and digital… Continue reading

  • The Great Divide?

    Residents of social housing are , pretty much , excluded from access to the internet. If you believe everything you read. Grant Shapps MP once said Social Housing tenants live in a “digital apartheid” Martha Lane Fox has said that “Almost… Continue reading

  • Bridging the Digital Divide – Project e-Bromford

    I read an article today about “apple babies”. That’s kids under the age of two who automatically try to use a touch screen when handed a phone, conditioned as they are to expect that if something has a screen it… Continue reading