400,000 seniors between 55 and 79 years are not on the internet - Aftenposten

– These, which are mainly older people are discriminated against. Also by the public, says chairman Ingeborg Moræus Hanssen in Seniornett the Times.

number 400.000 is based on figures from Statistics Norway and Denmark and Sweden. There are no figures for Norwegians who are older than this, but there are an estimated 200,000 Norwegians over 79 years as hardly use the internet.

class=”quote”> “You can not wait for them to die.”
Ingeborg Moræus Hanssen, Senior Network

Overall, it can be as many as 600,000 Norwegians who never or rarely use the Internet.

Ingeborg Moræus Hanssen thinks it’s a public problem that so many people do not use the Web when the state expects everyone to do it. She points out that it is assumed that you have contact with everything from tax authorities and Nav to banks, doctors and other public services online.

– There is a public task to get these online. Can not wait for them to die, she said.

Government is keen that as many people as possible to get online, make Undersecretary Paul Chaffey (H) in the Ministry of Local Government. (© NTB)