Courtesy of the wonderful (and sometimes rude) webcomic XKCD.

It’s funny and it’s target audience is web-savvy people who get asked for help on “computers” all the time, and who – mostly – will help people (with a World-weary air), but this flowchart is probably one of the best definitions I’ve seen of what I take “digital inclusion” to mean.

If you’re someone  that does the flowchart naturally then you’re able to perform the two things that I consider the activities of the digitally included:

• you’re able to experiment with technology to see if you can make it do what you want, without being scared
• you know where to look for help and when to give up and ask

And that’s it, I’ve never considered the phrase to mean anything more detailed that that – what do you think?

As an aside, think just how much help most digitally included flowchart followers are happy to give out, try pitching up at a Grand Prix and trying to get someone to teach you how to drive.