Helen MilnerCEO - Online Centres Foundation

Europe’s Growth Strategy: Economic Impact of Digital Inclusion

5 November 2012 

4,737,788,855Number of people in the world who

have NEVER used the internet (February 2012)

Who is offline? (has NEVER used the internet – UK population)

1m online for £30m: How have we* done?* UK online centres: April 2010 – July 2012

1 April 2010 – 27 April 2012

JUST in contactsmoved online

Clive: Employment• Clive was made redundant at

56. He has now found work

• One unemployed person costs the government £8,000 (€9,900) a year

• 8% of 1m = 80,000

• 80,000 people @ £8,000 each = £640m (€800m)

£640m (€800m)

Roger: Homelessness• Roger was homeless and is

now working and helping others

• Homelessness costs Government £26,000 (€32,400) a year

• The support Roger has received and is giving = saving £750,000 (€936,000) (10 years of being homeless for

Roger + 2 of his learners)

• 2% of UK online centres’ users are homeless

£750,000 (€936,000)

Norah: Health• Since getting online 78 year old

Norah has lost weight and her diabetes has much improved

• By getting online and reducing her symptoms, Norah alone will be saving the NHS £5,000 (€6,300) a year for the rest of her life

• If just 1% of diabetes sufferers were similar to Norah, saving = £145m a year (€181m)

• Norah has also improved to her arthritis and high blood pressure£145m (€181m)

a year

Cheryl: Volunteering• Cheryl had been out of work for 15

years and she began learning at her local UK online centre

• Since then, she has supported hundreds of people to do more online

• Volunteering provides a value of £18 billion (€22.5bn) to the economy each year, each volunteer provides a value of c£1100 (€1370)

• 20,000 volunteers in the UK online centres network who contribute £22m (€27,5m) a year

£22m (€27,5m) a year

LOCAL + TECHNOLOGY + SCALE

Thank You

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