The government is to encourage people to use broadband internet services with the appointment of Martha Lane Fox as the Digital Champion, a role she held in the last Labour government.

Dotcom pioneer Lane Fox, who co-founded Lastminute.com, is to promote the internet as a vital tool in people's participation in the Conservatives' vision of a Big Society.

She wrote on her website that she is happy to be allowed to continue in her role and proceed with her Race Online 2012, a scheme to get as many people using home broadband before the Olympics.

"I can champion the use of digital technologies to improve government processes, improve services for us all and crucially, to try and end the two-tier society that we live in where so many are left out of all the exciting ideas and transparency that the new coalition want to realise," she explained.

Broadband bundles provider BT has recently announced that it will upgrade it fixed-line home and business broadband networks in London to bring superfast fibre-optic capabilities to 87 per cent of the capital by 2012.

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