About 50,000 senior citizens have had a short SeniorNet Introduction to IT and Internet, and been given an opportunity to try their hand at surfing. Almost 50 local SeniorNet clubs are active, and several more are in the coming. By April 1998, a revised version was launched, and the present site is being developed continously. The objectives Sweden is rapidly developing into a nation of computer users. Technical innovation does reach a large number of people - but that is the younger people.
Regional studies show that very few seniors have personal access to the new techniques.
There is in fact a substantial generation barrier. In addition to the spreading international market place on Internet, a great number of services, commercial and social, is beginning to make use of Internet and as a result tend to shut down real life services. Bank and post offices close down, along with many small shops, health centres, and other community services, that hitherto have been accessible to seniors in the neighborhood. Thus, access to the new techniques become a necessity. These are the problems that SeniorNet Sweden approaches.