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| Contributor | Paul Allin, June Bowman, Emma-Jane Cooper-Green and Chris Randall, Office for National Statistics, UK |
| Title of paper | The Impact of the Internet on Society |
| Abstract | This paper presents the work that ONS has been and will be doing to explore the impact of the Internet and Internet related activities on society. Since early 2000 information on penetration and the use of the Internet by households and individuals has been gathered from the National Statistics surveys. ONS have also been comparing results in the UK with those provided by other National Statistics Institutes, including Canada and Australia as well as working with Eurostat on a model survey to permit the collection of internationally comparable results on a range of household and individual measures at the European level. Over the coming year ONS will undertake a cross-cutting programme of work in collaboration with interest groups, including OGDs, to form a comprehensive and coherent picture of how the saturation of ICTs and the Internet have created social and economic change. Several areas for investigation have been identified, including the impact of the ICT revolution on the labour market in changing the nature and emergence of new ICT-related occupations, and the characteristics and effects of those excluded from the Internet. |
| Full document | The Impact of the Internet on Society |
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