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The World Economic Forum today released its study on Scaling Opportunity: Information and Communications Technology for Social Inclusion, an analysis of how ICT is evolving to address the social and economic needs of the poor. The study notes that, as 4 billion people have access to the global communications infrastructure, the opportunity to create innovative and inclusively tailored solutions for connecting the unconnected is extraordinary. More - ICT is vital to achieve Social Inclusion

According to the Government, one in four of the recommendations set out in the Digital Britain white paper have been achieved. Meanwhile, a new pilot scheme’s been launched that could ultimately offer help to the 11.6 million adults who lack the basic IT skills to get online. More - Digital Britain recommendations 25% complete

Rural communities and hard to reach areas who do not have access to next generation broadband will benefit from a share of £1billion of Government investment said Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson today. More - Financial boost to digital infrastructure

The Digital Economy Bill is currently going through the House of Lords in what is the committee stage; this week it had its first “line by line examination.” With 299 amendments having been put forward by the time of writing – midweek it was a comparatively mere 74 – some of them are inevitably in contradiction to others. More - Amendments to the Digital Economy Bill

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has opened up a three month consultation period to gather views on how the Next Generation Fund could best be used to bring Next Generation Access to 90% of the population by 2017. Estimates suggest the fund could reach as much as a billion pounds within that period. More - 90% of UK population to get Next Generation Access by 2017?

Thanks to ThinkBroadband.com, here is a review of 2009 in a digital sense. More - 2009: The year of digital

Read Helen Milner's (Managing Director of UK Online Centre's) last thoughts of 2009 regarding Digital Inclusion. More - No plain sailing