{"id":1292,"date":"2009-10-13T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2009-10-13T09:31:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T08:31:02","slug":"ireland-offline-as-in-no-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Ireland offline, as in no broadband."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone wants to know the benefits of having an Internet connected population only needs to skim this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.co.uk\/cgi\/news\/release?id=268499\">Economic Benefit of Getting Everyone Online in the UK<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.co.uk\/cgi\/news\/release?id=268499\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><br \/>\n    &#8211; Digitally excluded households are missing out on average savings of<br \/>\n      GBP560 per year from shopping and paying bills online<\/p>\n<p>    &#8211; The most economically disadvantaged families are missing out on savings<br \/>\n      of over GBP1billion<\/p>\n<p>    &#8211; 1.6 million children in digitally excluded families could increase<br \/>\n      their lifetime earnings by GBP10.8billion<\/p>\n<p>    &#8211; Unemployed people who get online could increase their lifetime earnings<br \/>\n      by over GBP12,000<\/p>\n<p>    &#8211; If 5% of digitally excluded unemployed could find work by using job<br \/>\n      websites it would deliver an estimated GBP560million to the UK economy<\/p>\n<p>    &#8211; Internet savvy workers can earn an average increase in lifetime<br \/>\n      earnings of over GBP8,000<\/p>\n<p>    &#8211; Government could save at least GBP900 million a year in customer<br \/>\n      contact costs if all digitally excluded adults got online and made just<br \/>\n      one electronic contact per month<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>and while the amounts will be different in Ireland, the benefits will be similar, maybe even better. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone wants to know the benefits of having an Internet connected population only needs to skim this article Economic Benefit of Getting Everyone Online in the UK &#8211; Digitally excluded households are missing out on average savings of GBP560<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1292\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ireland offline, as in no broadband.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,30,46,68,48,7,13,8,186,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband","category-economy","category-education","category-government","category-information","category-internet","category-ireland","category-politics","category-recession","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}