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Making ICT easy for all
Thousands of people who think the internet isn’t for them are getting online the easy way – thanks to Go-ON and UK online centres.
The Go-ON website – http://learn.go-on.co.uk/ – offers free, easy-to-use email and web-search tools from a simple, banner-free website. It also includes basic ICT courses – from how to use a keyboard and mouse to keeping safe online, using government e-services, social networking and even online job-hunting.
Go-ON allows people to personalise and save settings, change colours, font size and even choose to use a built-in ‘hear it’ function which reads the text on screen. Because it’s for absolute beginners, it’s also designed to be supported, so people’s first steps onto the internet are supervised and so positive they’ll want to keep on using it.
Equal access
Go-ON is now the main tool used by UK online centres across England to help web-novices get to grips with the internet.
For many UK online centres, Go-ON is now the main platform they use to introduce new customers to computers and the internet. Often the free email account is enough to get people through the door, and the support and encouragement they receive enough to make them stay to find out more. For a few centres, it’s proving particularly useful in breaking down learning barriers for more vulnerable customers.
Those outside the UK online centres network can tap into its expertise and even directly into Go-ON for use with different client groups or customers. If you would like to harness either or, please don’t hesitate to contact us on ukonlinecentres@ufi.com, or visit us at www.ukonlinecentres.com, or http://learn.go-on.co.uk/.