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BBC to play a key role in broadband uptake
 
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(30 April 2009 4:15 pm)

 

MUMBAI: BBC Online Controller Seetha Kumar has suggested that BBC must continue to play a key role, just as it has in digital broadcast, to support the take up of broadband and promote online access.

"The BBC can provide an unique scale. What it now needs to do is to look at what more can be achieved through television, radio and online services and also by acting as a catalyst for industry-wide partnerships," Kumar said, while speaking at a digital inclusion conference in the UK.

 
"Nobody likes being excluded. That's just a fact. Yet, today nearly one-third of society is currently excluded – around 17 million adults are not using computers and the internet.
 
 

"And, as we shift ever faster to a knowledge based economy – exchanging ideas, information, music, games, images – the onus is on us to work together to find effective solutions to close the digital divide," Kumar added.

 
 
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