Dido Harding of TalkTalk has praised the efforts of a scheme that aims to get everyone in the UK online.
TalkTalk's chief executive has lauded the "brilliant work" being undertaken by the UK's digital champion Martha Lane Fox and the Race Online 2012 scheme.The initiative aims to make the country the first in the world where the entire population is able to use the internet, a challenge that requires helping nine million adults who have never gone online to access the web for the first time.
Commenting on the project, Dido Harding wrote on TalkTalk's official blog that broadband access can help to improve people's lives in a variety of ways.
However, she said: "The sad irony is that those who could most benefit from the internet are among those who are least likely to have used it."
Ms Harding therefore praised the efforts of Race Online 2012, describing it as an initiative that is aiming to "improve this situation".
According to the scheme's organisers, four million of the adults who have never used the web are among the most disadvantaged people in the UK.