Get your voice heard

Community Voices Network provides opportunities for members to access policy makers and to feed the ‘voices of communities’ into the policy development process.

Digital Inclusion

The Scottish Executive recently reviewed its Digital Inclusion Policy and wanted to hear the views of communities to find out how successful the policy had been in increasing awareness and access to computers and the internet in disadvantaged communities.

Towards the end of 2005, over 20 members of the Community Voices Network got involved in developing a response to the Scottish Executive.

While many members welcomed the increasing use of the internet and had examples of where computers had opened up opportunities in their community, participants also provided lots of examples of the barriers which exist in the more disadvantaged communities which mean that many people still do not have access to computers and the internet – and wanted to highlight to the Executive that information had to be accessible to everybody, not just those with internet access.

“It’s not computers that are important, it’s the information on them – People need free access to the information”

Click here to download full response

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