Digital Britain: The Final Report
Today marked the publication of the Digital Britain Report, the final version of the interim report published a few months ago.
As you might expect, my aim here is to go through the report section-by-section, with a summary of the “action points” and a little commentary.
Frankly, reading the report is like pulling teeth, especially if you’re savvy in one of the areas covered by the report, but presumably Joe Public isn’t really supposed to pay attention to things like this, even if it will have an effect on the lives of almost everybody in the UK in some way or another.
I’ve split this up into several posts, each covering a chapter of the report, starting with the Executive Summary in this one.
Chapter 1: Executive Summary
The Executive Summary certainly gives you a reasonable idea of the tone of the report. It begins with a quote from Gordon Brown, and goes on to lay out the ambitions of the report, which includes the phrase “digital knowledge economies”. It’s includes a collection of examples of where digital technology (in the broadest possible sense) is made use of day-to-day.
AMBITION: TO SECURE THE UK’S POSITION AS ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMIES
I’ll leave judgement on whether the report comes anywhere close to living up to this until the conclusions.
