About Race Online 2012 and Our Vision

Back in 2009, Race Online 2012 set out to make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use the web.

Chaired by the UK’s Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox and with a full-time staff of five based in London, Race Online 2012 sought to accelerate efforts to inspire, encourage and support more people online.

By the very nature of its name, Race Online 2012 was due to end this year and Martha commissioned Capgemini to conduct an independent review of her work as UK Digital Champion and of the campaign.   Please click here to read it.

This, and consultation with stakeholders, identified several key learnings that have helped to shape the vision and ambition of a radical new partnership organisation with a broader remit than Race Online 2012: Go ON UK.

The UK is still struggling to exploit the broader benefits of the internet as digital skills become increasingly vital tools to access education, information, jobs, consumer savings and social contacts. Millions of people have never used the internet, millions more lack the confidence to transact regularly on-line and there are many thousands of SMEs and charities failing to use digital technologies to grow their organisations or help their customers and service users. 

Go ON UK is a radical new partnership organisation and will build on these key learnings and address gaps. It will pick up the baton from RO2012 to get the final 8.12M online and encourage everyone to improve their digital skills, whilst ensuring all organisations are making the best use of digital technologies. 

To find out more about Go ON UK’s ambitions, please go to www.go-on-uk.org  Please continue to use this site for helpful tips, tools and resources. 

We wouldn’t have got this far without your support, so thank you.  We hope we can continue to rely on your enthusiasm and vision as the momentum and ambition for Go ON UK builds!