According to the BBC News, a recent survey suggests that an average of 16 million people in the UK currently lack basic online skills, which are regarded as the ability to send/receive emails, complete a search on a search engine and in general accessing online documents or gathering information online.
It seems that although the current trend and encouragement seems to be directed towards people who cannot use the internet whatsoever, whereas it is apparent that the focus could be somewhat more useful to be directed at improving the skills of current internet users.
Statistics have revealed that 16% of adults in the UK have never used the internet. However, having said that, this figure is actually 10% lower than in 2011, proving that although the growth in internet users may be slow, but that it is in fact growing and at a steady inclination like this, the main focus could therefore be aimed at improving people’s online skills, rather than introducing the internet to new users. The benefits of this could include the fact that if people were more informed about online abilities and about things that they can achieve merely by using the internet, that online marketing and online sales could perhaps increase due to a more informed audience.
Furthermore, this indicates that in order to educate an audience who have a basic online knowledge, we need to provide easier methods and learning experiences online, to increase the simplicity of online services, thus enabling more people to have a better and more informed online experience.
Fortunately, here at CDNify, it seems we have accidentally hit the nail on the head with this development! As we are aware that CDN can already be a challenging concept to understand, the fact that we have made our purchasing process, understanding and management of the actual service accessible in just a few basic steps, we hope that this will not only help smaller businesses/new business people to be able to benefit from CDN, but that it will in turn help to improve the overall knowledge of general internet users, to try to increase the growing online community.