Comments on: Mapping the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain https://ensr.oii.ox.ac.uk/mapping-the-local-geographies-of-digital-inequality-in-britain/ Understanding public policy online Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: William B. https://ensr.oii.ox.ac.uk/mapping-the-local-geographies-of-digital-inequality-in-britain/#comment-21 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:54:19 +0000 http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/?p=2730#comment-21 “Of course, this procedure assumes that people in small areas will generally match national patterns of Internet use … This is the first time we have been [able to] estimate the likely use at a local level, based on the known characteristics of the people who live there.”

What would be really interesting would be to compare this data with a real measure of internet connectivity—say, unique IP addresses per household—and see which areas are more or less connected than their demographic information would predict.

]]> By: Chris Conder https://ensr.oii.ox.ac.uk/mapping-the-local-geographies-of-digital-inequality-in-britain/#comment-22 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:16:26 +0000 http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/?p=2730#comment-22 What you should really look into is the fact that millions don’t have access to a fit for purpose connection despite the endless hype about ‘superfast’. Only then will you see the real picture. The digital divide grows ever wider whilst government fiddles and our digital nation suffers whilst the incumbent patches up its obsolete phone network. We need fibre. Moral and optic.

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