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The British Computer Society (BCS) reckons that 80% of Brits aren’t “IT savvy”.
And as a result the BCS has launched a website to help people get the most out of computers and the Internet.
What exactly is the definition of an IT savvy person, anyway? Well, if you visit the website at http://savvycitizens.bcs.org, there’s a quiz you can take to find out whether or not you’re in the top 20% savvy bracket.
Basically it’s all about whether you’re the sort of person who will share photos with family and friends using Facebook, or whether you’d print them off and mail them by post.
We took the quiz and it failed to give us a result at the end. Which we took to mean that we’re so savvy, we were off the scale and broke the application. Ahem.
Elizabeth Sparrow, President of the BCS, commented: “Unless all members of society are made aware of how they can access and use information in their daily lives, the significant proportion of Britons who are failing to realise the benefits of information technology will persist.”
“This is not just a question of access: information-savvy citizens also know how to use information and information technology to their advantage.”
Bollocks most of brits are to lazy or bone idel to learn new technology, or they pay someone to do it for them.
To use the savvy It quiz they expect you to signup to Facebook. In my book anyone signing up to these so called social networking sites isn’t IT savvy, so I couldn’t take the quiz, but I reckon I passed the test by refusing to join facebook.
Maybe the problem with UK citizens is that some of them are a bit too savvy to participate in their trawl for free data. To be honest I don’t want to sign in to facebook to take their quiz. Anonymous online quizzes are good fun but I don’t want the BCS having the details of my computer know how linked with my actual identity.
Chris Spackett having started by telling us what is between his ears goes on to say that we British are “to lazy” I guess he means “too lazy”. and then says “or idel” I guess he means “or idle” I have never seen so many errors in one short sentence.