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A cheaper way round part of the same problem.

The last government wanted to pay to buy computers for socially excluded children. I think that schools should simply collect donated computers and make them available to any pupil who asks for one, followed by any pensioner. I don't think the security problems are real but if others disagree, there's a free program which deletes everything on all hard drives and other free programs that install linux operating system and a collection of software.

The next problem is the cost of connection to the internet.

A company listed on moneysavingexpert called (?)  Thon claims to have solved this for inner cities at least. Any surplus bandwidth on a wifi connection is made available to other subscribers who happen to be passing. If subscription were made available cheaply or free to anyone with a council library card, most of us in crowded areas would have a good chance of net connection without having to pay extra

The third problem is what the quesioner asked. Plenty of people simply don't want to use the internet. I think there is scope for making the existing party leaflets shown on The Straight Choice website a lot better. None of the dozens of leaflets through my door in SW14 was a manifesto, local or national, or a description of the job of MP or councillor. Many deliberately confused the jobs into one party loyalty. What I did was put leaflets through letteboxes saying "no canvassing without a manifesto please" with a suggestion of putting them next to the doorbell, and to tell local canvassers at the polls that I had done so. I hope it helped. The MP who thought she was a "strong voice for local people" got over 5,000 votes less then last time so I think some other people are sick of stupid leaflets too.

Another way of engaging people off the internet is to have local and national elections on different days, and on different days than nearby councils, so each time there is a council election the issues can be reported on the telly.

Simples!