The UK Internet Service Providers Association ( ISPA ) has accepted an invitation to be a partner of Race Online 2012. Led by the UK’s Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox, the project aims to turn the UK into one of the first countries in the world to establish a fully online, internet enabled society.

As part of its partnership with Race Online 2012, ISPA has for the first time this year launched the Digital Inclusion Award, which seeks to honour those organisations and individuals that have done the most to enable people to get online.

The winner of the new Award will be crowned along with winners of Awards in 13 other categories at the twelfth annual 2010 ISPA Awards ceremony on Thursday 8th July.


More than 10 million adults across the country have never used the Internet, and worryingly 4 million of this group are also socially excluded. Of course we should not forget that many people have made a conscious decision to stay off-line.