April 21st, 2010 | Category: Digital Economy Bill, Factsheets - Digital Economy Bill, General | No Comments »
The Digital Economy Bill has now been published as the Digital Economy Act 2010 following Royal Assent. The Act includes provisions relating to the UK’s communications infrastructure, public service broadcasting, copyright licensing and online infringement of copyright, and security and safety online and in video games.
Some of the measures in the Act will come into effect [...]
September 24th, 2009 | Category: General | Comments Off
Apparently, some companies are getting calls from a character calling himself Anthony Towers, purporting to be from the Digital Britain Office or similar and wanting to discuss products and services.
I’ve never met anyone of this name and can only presume there is a scam at work. In fact a quick search reveals there is a [...]
August 6th, 2009 | Category: General | 3 Comments »
Well it’s taken a little while for an official announcement, but we have Stephen Timms installed as Digital Britain Minister. That this happened on the day Twitter went down has probably upset the communications team upstairs, but the news is getting out by more old fashioned means anyway.
For many of us, it is a return [...]
July 13th, 2009 | Category: General | 11 Comments »
It is slightly unusual for a junior government minister to be so closely associated with a major government strategy, but over the past eight months we have seen hundreds of references to ‘Stephen Carter’s Digital Britain Report’. With his departure, we’re seeing a new focus on how the report’s recommendations will be implemented, including some [...]
June 16th, 2009 | Category: Digital Britain Report, General | 8 Comments »
Lots of coverage in the media today. All we can say is… watch this space!
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