Digital Britain outlines the Government's strategic vision for ensuring that the UK is at the leading edge of the global digital economy.
Round-up of today’s announcements around Building Britain’s Digital Future:
Number10.gov.uk news story
Press release: £30 million institute for Web Science will lead the way in Web 3.0
Transcript of the Prime Minister’s speech
See what people are saying about Building Britain’s Digital Future on Twitter
Video of the Prime Minister’s speech
The Oxford Internet Institute website on developing a methodology for costing digital inclusion is now up and running. The online consultation was commissioned by the National Audit Office to inform its understanding of the evidence base on the costs and benefits of digital inclusion activities. It can be found here:
http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/digital-exclusion/
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Technological advances are transforming both our ecomomy and society and it’s vital that everyone in the UK has the opportunity to get online and benefit from these advances.
That was the message from Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain, in his keynote speech at the Digital Inclusion Conference 2010 in London on 10 March 2010.
The speech [...]
Today is the launch of the National Plan for Digital Participation (PDF, 665 KB). The Plan intends to get 60% of those people not online, online by March 2014 – this equates to 7.5 million people (of the 12.5 million not online) being connected for the first time over the next four years – or, another way to understand this number is that over 5,000 people must go online for the very first time every day for the next four years.
Speech by: Stephen Timms MP
Venue: Guardian News and Media, London
I am delighted to be here today to launch the “beta” of data.gov.uk. We promised this in Smarter Government; today we deliver it, with over 2,500 data sets.
Government Data
Government has a unique role in the data economy. We gather definitive reference information across a huge number [...]
