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• Whats in a name ... ? Why does DCMS wish to redefine the creative industries?

  
  When IT Meets Politics with Philip Virgo — Authority: 109
  DCMS has contacted a number of organisations to "clarify" the reasons for its exercise to redefine the creative industries as follows:    "DCMSare  concerned that our proposals may have been misunderstood.  Thisconsultation relates to how Creative Industries are classified and measured forthe purposes of ...
  3 days ago

• What questions will the NAO report on BDUK seek to answer ?

  
  When IT Meets Politics with Philip Virgo — Authority: 109
  I was delighted with the news that the National Audit Office will be investigating whether BDUK gives value for money. One can make a reasonable guess as to some of the questions they might address and those they will shy away from. One question that they are most unlikely to consider is whether it was all a plot ...
  3 days ago

• Committee says UK Government did not consult adequately with the Church in Wales on equal marriage bill

  
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  A Welsh Assembly committee report says the UK Government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales would have effectively banned the Church in Wales from carrying out marriages for same-sex couples in its original drafting – because of the Church’s “incompletely disestablished” status. The ...
  5 days ago

• BT has a veto on RCBF rural broadband projects

  
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  BT is determined not to allow competition in rural areas. That’s why the speed and coverage details of their NGA contracts are kept under non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), and why would-be RCBF-funded community networks in the Final 10% are not allowed to see them. This is clear from BDUK’s guidance to local ...
  6 days ago

• Maria Millers £1billion broadband roll-out to be heavily criticised by National Audit Office

  
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  An ambitious plan to offer high speed broadband to millions of people living in rural areas is to be heavily criticised by the public spending watchdog.        
  1 week ago

• The "free market" on-line world is under attack from all directions: who wants to save what and why?

  
  When IT Meets Politics with Philip Virgo — Authority: 109
  The storm of media cover for PRISM , the NSA equivalent for what the Communications Bill was intended to support in the UK , raises many questions, including the future of competition in the provision of the infrastructures over which we access the on-line world. The ZDNET speculative article on how and why ...
  1 week ago

• DCMS land-grab is a threat to ITs political and economic future

  
  Computer Weekly Editor's Blog — Authority: 97
  The IT industrys vital role in the UK economy is under threat from what appears to be a desperate attempt by a Whitehall department to avoid being cut back or even scrapped in chancellor George Osbornes forthcoming spending review. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has quietly issued a consultation ...
  1 week ago

• Did DCMS get legal advice on Final 10% NGA borders?

  
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  Br0kenTeleph0n3 has used the Freedom of Information Act to ask the department of culture, media & sport whether it has sought and received legal advice on the publication of speed and coverage details contained in next generation broadband contracts now kept secret under non-disclosure agreements between local ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government tells press to ‘get on’ with reform following Lucy Meadows inquest

  
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  The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has commented on the inquest into the death of transgender teacher Lucy Meadows and says it is now time for the press industry “to get on with setting up an independent, self-regulatory body.” Yesterday, Michael Singleton, coroner for Blackburn, Hyndburn and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government broadband projects face disaster

  
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  The Cabinet Office’s Major Projects report classifies the two main BDUK projects, for next generation access and for “super-connected cities” as Amber/Red, meaning they risk running out of control. Amber/red means that “successful delivery of the project is in doubt, with major risks or issues apparent in a ...
  3 weeks ago

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