Green Facts

Only 8,000 years ago, the Earth was covered by approximately 14.8 billion acres of forest. Today, as a consequence of human expansion (or exploitation, depending on how you look at it) the worlds forest area has shrunk to just 8.6 billion acres. Even more alarming, most of this loss occurred in the last 50 years.

Race Online 2012

Race Online 2012 is a challenge to everyone in the UK. Our ambition is to make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use the web.

Technology links us together like never before. The UK has 40 million adult internet users, with 30 million people using the web every day.

However, there are 10 million adults in the UK who have never used the internet – the combined size of the entire population of our five biggest cities.

Four million of those are among the most disadvantaged:

39% are over 65
38% are unemployed
19% are families with children.

We are calling for urgent action to inspire, encourage and support millions more people online by the end of the Olympic year 2012 through partnership with government, industry, charities and individuals.

Martha Lane Fox was reappointed UK Digital Champion by the new government in June 2010. Her remit includes advising government how to provide better, more efficient online public services and accelerating efforts to help more people benefit from the power of the internet.

We launched in March and already have over 600 partners. Collectively, they have pledged to help more than 1.7 million people get online.

We feel there is a real opportunity to unite the UK and make rapid progress towards real social change. Join us now. We’re all better off when everyone’s online.