Get online week is an annual campaign from UK online centres the UK-based Government-funded organisation. Get online week took place from 18–24 October in 2010, and from 31 October-7 November in 2011.
Each year the campaign aims to get tens of thousands of people that have never used computers and the internet before online.
«The European Get online week is a Europe wide campaign by Telecentre-Europe inspired by the UK Online centres initiative, to get new computer users online. It helps to get people through the doors of their local telecentres, enabling staff to build people’s confidence to move on into more structured learning. European Get online week 2011 takes place from 28 February to 5 March and aims to bring online at least 100,000 "offliners" - new internet users. More details at www.getonlineweek.eu [1].»
2011 was the 5th annual October event from UK online centres. Previously 'Get online week' was called 'Get online day' [2] but the decision was made to change the name for 2010 and stretch the campaign over a week. This was due to the natural growth of the campaign and previous feedback that a day wasn't enough time to fit in all the activities that were arranged. In fact in both 2010 and 2011 many events and promotional activities happened throughout the whole month of October.
UK online centres teamed up with a range of external partners who generated huge amounts of publicity for Get online week. They include the BBC, BT, Three, Post Office and MLA amongst many others. Partners also held their own events or directed people to one of the 3,800 UK online centres which are situated around England.