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Karen Price
AS Profile Her role is increasingly influential in light of the government's vision of a Digital Britain where the public are online and actively engaged with technology. As CEO of e-skills UK, the Sector... [29 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News But it warned the UK's potential around technology - and thus the potential of IT to drive economic recovery - is being held back by the current crop of business leaders who are failing to 'get IT', and also by the failure of the... [23 Sep 2009]
Naked CIO: Top 10 reasons to be a CIO
Comment Despite what some say about the skills gap, Britain still has some of the best and most refreshing young IT minds in the world - and we get to work alongside them. Do the pros of being an IT leader... [17 Aug 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News Junior minister Stephen Timms is set to assume responsibility for implementing the Digital Britain plan, according to a report in The Guardian. Reports of Lord Carter's departure emerged just prior to the release of his... [04 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: Speak up for British jobs
Comment The Naked CIO says it's time to stop this trend before it permanently harms Britain. My feeling is that these trends will cripple Britain's ability to ever be a true leader in IT and will deteriorate its... [14 Jul 2009]
£23m pot of gold for tech-bamboozled SMEs
News The funding, announced in the government's Digital Britain report released yesterday, is aimed at encouraging the take-up of digital technology among the smallest companies. The money, which will come from the Department... [17 Jun 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News The proposals come as part of the government's Digital Britain report - its blueprint for ensuring the UK does not become the laggard of the global digital economy. Speaking at the launch of the final Digital... [16 Jun 2009]
Budget: £750m cash injection for UK tech
News And the budget committed the government towards the proposal in the Lord Carter's Digital Britain report to roll out a 2Mbps broadband service across the UK by 2012. On e-skills the budget mentioned a... [22 Apr 2009]
Cheat sheet: Digital Britain
Cheat Sheet Digital Britain. Lord Carter is in charge of overseeing the Digital Britain report, which is due out this summer and should help determine the government's policy on a range of technology issues.... [21 Apr 2009]
"It's about removing barriers which hold business back"
News The Digital Britain report, being undertaken by Lord Carter and due in the summer, will "establish the framework for a fundamental transformation of our broadband infrastructure", said the Berr report. [21 Apr 2009]
Naked CIO: Buy British
Comment But in recent years the cost differential between shipping jobs overseas and keeping them in Britain has reduced dramatically. I encourage you to review your suppliers and companies and use your leverage as an IT... [23 Mar 2009]
"I'm not an out and out technology person"
Comment With the government spending on tech R&D and its Digital Britain plan to get 2Mbps broadband to every home in the country, Boss believes the role of the CIO will become increasingly important as the conduit to allow... [09 Mar 2009]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo The National Museum of Computing's Chilvers said: "Amstrad developed its machines aiming at the cheap end of the market, which enables it to become a mass market in Britain and why Britain is so... [03 Sep 2008]
UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants'
News says soaring demand for highly skilled workers, along with existing skills shortages and the UK's ageing population, means businesses must look to source workers from abroad if Britain is to remain... [02 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Also, the government's latest surveillance plans have had readers up in arms… and finally the recent calls by Lords to lift the Segway ban in Britain has divided readers… The so-called skills slump in... [22 May 2008]
