For the last week I’ve been occupied with a new blog which tracks news coverage in the lead up to publication of Lord Carter’s final Digital Britain report. The report will be published on Tuesday 16th June and announced in Parliament by the new Minister, Ben Bradshaw, in the afternoon.
On Wednesday 17th Lord Carter will present his recommendations in Birmingham at the International Conference Centre and at an Unconference event with liveblogging at Fazeley Studios in Digbeth. I’ll be there.
Unconferences so far: Oxfordshire, Humberside, London. Cambridge next
Note for the Birmingham Unconference
Preparation: it would help if people could read the report from the Oxford unconference beforehand. They may want to develop some of those themes or introduce new ones. I can report back on the first meeting. http://digitalbritainunconference.wordpress.com/
Reporting from the London unconference should be available shortly.
Suggest we use the Write To Reply version of DB report for reference http://writetoreply.org/digitalbritain/
There is some danger of fragmentation into numerous wikis and blogs. If people would link to the digitalbritainunconference.wordpress.com and writetoreply.org sites it would provide a point of contact for people joining the discussion.
Outcomes
We need to develop a coherent response by 15th for feedback to DB from all the unconferences.
Then, recognising that the final DB report is not going to match aspirations of users or producers in the digital media sector, start thinking about
1.what kind of ongoing campaign will be needed to influence policy in UK and EUÂ
2.what we can do ourselves to implement a social and economic vision for the Web.
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