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 computer games industry is key to the future economic success of Scotland and will continue to support jobs and innovation in Dundee, UK Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms will say today at a visit to Abertay University.
The university is at the centre of the successful computer games industry in Dundee and has produced [...]
Peter Mandelson is appearing today at the C&binet event. His speech sets out the Government’s intention to put in place a fair and thorough process involving warnings to suspected illicit file sharers, and technical measures to back this up if needed – including account suspension. He also stresses that only persistent rule breakers would be [...]
With typical Whitehall understatement, I think we can say there has been a lively reaction to the announcement on Tuesday about further proposals to tackle unlawful peer-to-peer filesharing. We thought it was worth countering a few of the more strident accusations against the Government over the past couple of days, and have picked out some [...]
As you have no doubt seen by now, ministers are announcing today an update of their thinking on the issue of peer to peer filesharing.
In essence this is a strengthening of the same procedures for letter-writing and warning of those who seem to be illicitly sharing files, but with the tougher ultimate penalty of suspension of [...]
