Digital Britain: What to expect sector by sector from Lord Carter’s report

Lord Carter’s Digital Britain review has been the most comprehensive examination of the media and telecoms landscape in the UK in recent memory. Its impact will reverberate across the industry for some time – regardless of how long the communications minister himself remains in government.January’s interim report set out five objectives: upgrading and modernising the UK’s digital networks; encouraging investment in the digital economy; ensuring “UK content for UK users”; providing access for all to new digital technologies; and developing the skills needed to enable widespread take-up of public services online.It also had 22 so-called action points; Carter’s final report tomorrow will have twice that number, spanning everything from digital literacy and protecting children on the internet, to solving Channel 4’s funding crisis and combating online piracy. Here are some of the main areas…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/12/digital-britain-lord-carterAlso see:UK needs industrial policy for a digital age by Lord Carter, the UK’s communications minister
When the banking crisis swept Britain, critics were quick with a damning verdict: UK leadership in financial services disguised a major weakness – the absence of a more diverse industrial base.The government will on Tuesday attempt to rebut this with the publication of Digital Britain, a policy framework for the communications and technology and media sector that represents a shift towards “industrial activism”.
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