ABSTRACT
The information age presents many challenges for those in education and government. The need for the whole population to be able to access and use new technologies such as computers, the internet and digital television is often seen as crucial to establishing a skilled workforce and empowered citizenry for the twenty-first century. The potential of these new technologies to allow people to learn throughout the life-course is also seen as a ready means of establishing developed countries as learning societies’. Governments around the world have therefore set targets and developed policies to help all adults to learn, work and live with the support of information and communications technologies (ICTs).
