If you can find the time to give an hour and help someone discover the internet, what would you show them? How can you engage them through their own interests?
Friend of Race Online 2012 and OU honorary graduate Martha Lane-Fox is giving up her hour to help her dad go beyond basic email and show him how the internet can support his interests in gardening and history.
If you pledge to give an hour, what would you show an internet novice? Share your comments below and feel free to submit your own video and audio messages too. Please email the Platform team with your video messages.
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As an online journalist the internet is absoloutely vital to my work and also the way I consume news. I'm a huge fan of sitting down and reading the newspaper but when I'm in a hurry, on a train or flitting between meetings, it's great to be able to check the headlines quickly and easily from my computer or mobile phone. Also, as a distance learning student, study just wouldn't be possible for me without the internet and I'd feel much less connected - and have a lesser experience - without the likes of Facebook, Twitter and forums to chat to my cohort and AudioBoo to access my tutorials.