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Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain and financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government is committed to making its £6 per year tax on landlines law to pay for rolling out next-gen... [23 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News A panel assembled by the British Computer Society (BCS) were asked to consider whether IT could lead the UK out of recession. More must be done to convince grey-haired business leaders to embrace web 2.0 developments, a... [23 Sep 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment The government's Digital Britain scheme focuses squarely on the consumer. Various companies have been quick to criticise the Digital Britain report for overlooking... [19 Jun 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News He added that digital technologies will be crucial to delivering universal broadband access by 2012 - the commitment set out by comms minister Lord Carter in his interim Digital Britain... [29 Apr 2009]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment Looking at the headline in The Guardian this week and you'd be forgiven for thinking something momentous has happened to Broadband Britain today: 'Fears of digital divide groundless as online access... [23 May 2008]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment Broadband Britain', as you might expect, is the most popular place in the world for such groups to do business. It's largely about protecting identity - the Achilles heel of the digital... [07 Mar 2007]
EC rivals Google with digital library plan
News It also acknowledged that several initiatives are already under way within Europe such as the Collect Britain project in the UK which is backed by the British Library and part-funded by the National Lottery. [03 Oct 2005]
Election '05: Digital divide must be addressed
Comment I wrote: "In Britain, where a quarter of homes are believed to have access to the internet, one can sit comfortably inside the well-connected embrace of the M25 and imagine the benefits of the new dot-communism reaching... [26 Apr 2005]
Cyber Britain welcomes the 'disadvantaged'
Comment Both DTI minister Patricia Hewitt and the government's e-Envoy, Andrew Pinder, trotted out the government line that it is vital the internet becomes a tool for social inclusion rather than the exclusive preserve of white middle class,... [13 May 2003]
Internet 'have-nots' targeted by digital divide initiative
News The UK government has kicked off a campaign to encourage the elderly, disabled, unemployed and ethnic minorities to use the internet, in order to stop a growing digital divide in Britain. E-Envoy Andrew... [13 May 2003]
Blair calls for European ecommerce reforms
News He held up Britain as an example. Blair went on to talk about shifting priorities in society as a whole. Today marks the start of a two-day special session devoted to the impact of technology on business... [30 Jan 2000]
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