Helen Milner, Managing Director, UK online centres

Helen is the Managing Director of UK online centres, a division of Ufi. Set up by the UK government in 1999 to provide public access to computers and the internet, the network of 6,000 centres now plays a key role in realising the benefits of ICT to help improve individual lives, strengthen communities and achieve social inclusion.

She is member of the Taskforce supporting Champion for Digital Inclusion Martha Lane Fox, and a member of the Digital Participation Consortium taking set up in the wake of the government's pivotal Digital Britain report. Helen has over 20 years' experience of working in the e-learning industry, starting in 1985 in the private sector with The Times Network Systems, developing online education services for schools. She has been at Ufi since 1999, where she previously led the operation of the learndirect learning network and learndirect advice services. She also led the ippr and University of Sunderland 'university for industry' pilot, following the Labour victory in May 1997.