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Some of the non-confidential responses received for the Consultation on sustainable, independent and impartial news in the Nations, locally and in the regions, have been published. [24 September 2009]
The Government has pubished the Digital Britain Implementation Plan. Following Ministerial changes, this plan formally sets out the future governance arrangements and programme plan for the delivery of the Actions contained in the Final Report. [13 August 2009]
Digital Britain White Paper: Update 30 June 2009 - Actions and implementations, please also see related press notice for more information. [30 June 2009]
The Government issued a statement that sets out its evolved thinking in the area of unlawful peer-to-peer file-sharing (PDF 40kb), and issued an invitation to comment on that statement as well as the other issues raised in the 16 June consultation document - 'legislation to address illicit peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing' (Setting out the government's legislative approach for dealing with the problem of the use of p2p technology to unlawfully share copyright material). [25 August 2009]
Consultation on the proposed new duties for Ofcom; to promote efficient investment in infrastructure and to provide a full assessment of UK communications infrastructure every two years has been published. The consultation has now closed. [13 August 2009]

The Interim Digital Britain Report set out a Spectrum Modernisation Programme to address a range of key issues in the transition to next generation mobile services. A report from the Independent Spectrum Broker has been published. [13 May 2009]
As part of taking forward Action 15 of the Digital Britain Interim Report, Perspective Associates have prepared a discussion document to scope potential issues around the UK television production market. A report of their findings is now available online. [16 April 2009]

Sector Skills Councils, e-skills UK and Skillset, have today published Digital Britain : Creating the Skills for the Digital Economy, which will be used to inform decisions taken in the final Digital Britain Report in partnership with Government Departments and the Devolved Administrations. [16 April 2009]
As part of the Digital Britain Report, John Myers was commissioned to carry out an independent review of radio services and the existing localness legislation. An Independent Review of the Rules Governing Local Content on Local Radio published on 16 April 2009, specifically takes forward Action 9g of the Interim Report. [16 April 2009]
Discussion document on the UK television production market [16 April 2009]

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Digital Britain Summit
[17 April 2009]

The summit brought together key organisations and individuals to debate how best to equip Britain for a digital future.

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