The Company

These pages are no longer current. They provide historical information on an unsuccessful bid to the Millennium Commission made by "Information for All" in 1996/97.

"Information for All" was a not-for-profit company set up by the Library and Information Commission and the Library Association with the aim of finding ways to fund a national programme for the networking of 4,000 public libraries in the UK. See: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/public-libraries/

The People's Network Project is the lottery-funded project (New Opportunities Fund) which has connected all public libraries to the Internet, as part of the Government's commitment to give everyone in the UK the opportunity to get online. The project is managed by Re:source and more than 4000 library centres have been created through the initiative. [11-02-2003]

Information for All was set up after an initial bid run solely by the Library Association (LA) failed last year at the second stage of the bidding process. However the Millennium Commissioners gave the LA a letter saying that they would not object to the submission of a revised bid . It was now this revised bid that Information for All was set up to administer.

Now that this second bid has been rejected, Information for All, will now be working to achieve that vision through other sources of money. The directors are heartened by the all party support the bid has attracted, support which they believe will not evaporate because the case for putting free Internet access into libraries is so strong.

Company Directors

Registered Office

Contact information:

© Information for All
For questions or comments, please contact informall@la-hq.org.uk
URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/informall/company/
Last revised 07-Feb-1997

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