Source: http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/6216.aspx
( 16 June 2009
)
The Digital Britain Report is the
Government's strategic vision for ensuring that the UK is at the leading edge
of the global digital economy. It is an example of industrial activism in a crucial growth sector.
The report
contains actions and recommendations to ensure first rate digital and
communications infrastructure to promote and protect talent and innovation in
our creative industries, to modernize TV and radio frameworks, and support
local news, and it introduces policies to maximize the social and economic
benefits from digital technologies.
Report
sections
- Foreword by the Rt Hon Lord
Mandelson and the Rt Hon Ben Bradshaw MP and Introduction by Lord Carter
CBE PDF (75kb)
- Chapter 1: Executive
Summary and Chapter 9: Delivering Digital Britain PDF (294kb)
- Chapter 2: Being Digital PDF (249kb)
- Chapter
3a: A Competitive Digital Communications Infrastructure PDF (461kb)
- Chapter 3b: Radio: Going
Digital * PDF (218kb)
- Chapter 4: Creative Industries
in the Digital World PDF (248kb)
- Chapter
5: Public Service Content in Digital Britain PDF (232kb)
- Chapter 6: Research, Education
and Skills for Digital Britain PDF
(284kb)
- Chapter 7: Digital Security and
Safety PDF (359kb)
- Chapter 8: The Journey to
Digital Government PDF (263kb)
- Chapter 9: Delivering Digital
Britain PDF (120kb)
- Annex: Actions from the Interim
Report and List of Acronyms PDF
(84kb)
Full Report
- Digital Britain Final Report PDF (3mb)
- Digital Britain Final Report RTF (2.7mb)
- Digital Britain Final Report MS Word (949kb)
- Commentable version of Digital
Britain Final Report
Impact Assessments
Digital Britain Impact Assessments PDF (1.5mb)
* Erratum Chapter 3b: Radio:
Going Digital Page 93 - Figure 6 The colours on the key should be reversed –
the black line in the table shows ‘Organic Growth’ and the green line in the
table shows the ‘Drive to Digital’
The Digital Britain Final Report is one of the central policy commitments
in the Government's Building Britain's Future plan and draft legislative
programme.
Building Britain's Future sets out the practical action we will take to
build a stronger, fairer and more prosperous country. It focuses
the energy and mission of the government in the year ahead on three clear
priorities:
- Cleaning up politics and reforming our democracy
- Moving from recession to recovery and planning
for a strong economy in the future; and
- Reforming Britain's public
services.
Lee Bryant: People power can reboot Britain
By Lee Bryant at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/lee-bryant-people-power-can-reboot-britain-1713007.html
Posted by: Jac | June 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM
2009-06-25 16:09:37 | No replies.
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Posted by: Jac | June 28, 2009 at 06:13 PM
For me the key paragraphs are 15 and 17. The first has a list of criteria for earliest switchover where it is also stated that digital switchover means the ‘primary means of access, rather than one among many’, meaning that digital exclusion is alive and well in Digital Britain – in this instance for high volume, low complexity and efficiency (for the government).
The second states that there is a need to consider whether an online only or multi-channel approach is needed.
Posted by: Great Emancipator | June 26, 2009 at 10:56 AM