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Digital Britain report: At a glance News
Digital Britain is the report that will guide the UK's strategy to make it a leading player in the new media revolution. The author of the report, dubbed Digital Britain, is Stephen Carter, the minister for communications, technology and broadcasting.
Lord Carter began work on the Digital Britain action plan on 17 October 2008 and is due to release the full report tomorrow (16 June). Carter's interim Digital Britain report was released on the 29 January. ComputerWeekly.com has pulled together a full review of all Digital Britain stories and opinions in reaction to the interim report, a useful source of background information.
It is seen widely an opportunity to put Britain on the digital fast track. However, many critics believe the report will not deliver the transformation and investment in digital required to make the UK a cutting edge digital economy.
There is speculation that the report's author Stephen Carter will be resigning from Government as soon as he has released his the Digital Britain report. Business minister Peter Mandelson is likely to oversee its implementation.
The Digital Britain report hopes to achieve five goals:
1. To upgrade and modernise the UK's digital networks to enable the economy to remain globally competitive
2. To attract investment for UK digital content, applications and services
3. To create UK content for UK users, in particular impartial news, comment and analysis
4. To ensure fairness and access for all
5. To develop the infrastructure, skills and take-up that enable the widespread online delivery of public services and business interface with government.
All the latest news, blogs and multimedia content about the Digital Britain report from ComputerWeekly.com and from the web can be found below.
- Government to tax Digital BritainThe government is planning to raise millions of pounds through taxes on wireless ...News Date: 17:35 26 Oct 2009
- Digital Britain implementation plan: Government seeks control of UK internet domainsThe government wants to reserve the right to allocate internet domain names under the implementation plan for Digital Britain published today.News Date: 16:39 13 Aug 2009
- Digital Britain needs a reboot, says ex-Microsoft boffinProposals in the Digital Britain report will transfer billion of pounds to old companies and tax the very companies it claims to want to help, says Microsoft UK's former national technology officer.News Date: 09:05 24 Jun 2009
- Blair's Digital Britain vision poses challenge for IT leadersIT-led transformation of public services has only just begun, according to the government.News Date: 12:59 04 Apr 2005
- Government outlines Digital Britain guideThe Digital Britain Report aims to be a guidepath for how Britain can sustain its position as a leading digital economy and society. On current definitions, Digital Britain accounts for nearly £1 in every £10 t...News Source: www.cbronline.com
- thinkbroadband :: What will the Digital Britain report say?The Digital Britain report may become one of the most important reports for the UK broadband industry, or it may just join the growing pile of reports and research. From tomorrow, we can debate the merits of th...News
- Digital Britain plan risks leaving UK in the slow laneIndependent watchdog Consumer Focus has become the latest body to lay into the government’s Digital Britain Interim Report, saying that comms minister Lord Carter’s plans lack vision, neglect consumer interests...News Source: www.microscope.co.uk
- Digital Britain: the spectrum implications - ScotlandISLord Carter’s recently published Digital Britain report outlines two bold projects to ensure the widespread availability of high-speed broadband: the universal service broadband commitment of 2Mbit/s for all ho...News Source: www.scotlandis.com Date: 01:00 25 Jun 2009
- Opinion: Digital Britain needs secure surfingInternet security is a constantly changing mission and one that requires you to stay on top of the game, minimising the threats and risk of security breaches, w...Opinion Date: 01:00 19 Aug 2009
- When IT Meets PoliticsThe rapid extinction of Iran's bloggers and tweeters shows the vulnerability of any movement that relies on the Internet to help it seriously challenge a ruling elite. But a few years ago the fuel protesters ca...Blogs
- Why Digital Britain needs a boostWhen communications minister Stephen Carter published his Digital Britain interim report in late January, the UK joined a process that has been going on in Euro...In Depth Date: 14:40 02 Mar 2009
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- Digital Britain needs to meet Welsh needs, committee says | Latest Industry News | News | Opinion,The government's Digital Britain initiative needs to meet the needs of Wales and build on the good work in the communications industry already achieved by the Welsh Assembly Government, a new report has said.Web Source: www.bcs.org
- FT.com / Digital Business/ Digital BritainLord Carter’s “Digital Britain – the Interim Report”, was published on January 29 by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.Web
- Comms tsar to quit after Digital Britain reportCommunications minister Stephen Carter is expected to leave government, according to a report in The Times.Enterprise Source: www.microscope.co.uk
- Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plansA "colossal disappointment", say Tories. The Digital Britain report has drawn criticism from politicians and technology experts over itsWeb Source: www.silicon.com
- Digital Britain - charge the Elephant not the dying donkeyThat said, do read the full Digital Britain report. It is far more than just a curate' egg: good in parts. It contains much excellent material. Just don't get hung up on the sections that are not so good. Treat...Blog Date: 10:22 17 Jun 2009
- Digital Britain and the Elephant on the NetworkThat almost certainly entails an economic, fiscal and regulatory framework within which Google makes more money for its shareholders either from underpinning infrastructure investment or from losing market shar...Blog Date: 13:54 16 Jun 2009
- The Ofcom Consultation and the future of Digital BritainThe internet and broadband collapses of the past fortnight, internationally and domestically, have once again shown the fragility of the infrastructure on which we are gambling the future of society - from cent...Blog Date: 15:10 15 Aug 2009
- What is not different about the Internet?Unless we escape from Fantasy Island, the Chinese and Indian players, from Huaewei to the myriad suppliers of language independent multi-media systems and search engines will dominate the on-line world, includi...Blog Date: 10:05 24 Oct 2009
- Will Digital Britain widen the global digital divide?As the government’s Digital Britain report acknowledges, equal access to the Internet is more important than peak performance. But who is investing in equal access in the developing world?Blog Source: www.information-age.com
- A good week for data protection? : Blogs : BCSThere have been reports this week that the parts of the Coroners & Justice Bill on information sharing that BCS raised objections to are being withdrawn. That's good news, and particularly satisfying for our vo...Blog
- Digital Britain -- first thoughtsCongratulations to <aBlog Source: ipkitten.blogspot.com Date: 15:49 16 Jun 2009
- Digital Britain - what does it mean for SMEs?The SME Advisory Panel met for the fourth and final time last week to discuss the state of the UK economy and the impact on small and medium-sized enterprises. The panel's focus was to gather opinion on the sta...Blog Source: blogs.technet.com Date: 10:09 29 Jul 2009
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