Digital Economy Bill: the final instalment
With the third reading of the Digital Economy Bill in the House of Lords, the Bill is now looking like a home run in its present form.
Ged Carroll
Ged writes on the digital economy; he is director, digital strategies at Ruder Finn and is a member of the faculty at Econsultancy. He has previous worked for a number of brands including Yahoo! and as guest lecturer at LaSalle Business and Engineering School, Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona. He speaks regularly on digital issues and youth marketing. In a prior life he ran warehouse parties and worked in an oil refinery. His personal blog can be found at renaissancechambara.jp.
Digital Britain: the Cameron edition
The Digital Economy Bill would have been an ideal way for the Tories to differ from Labour; instead, Conservative peers have helped make a bad bill even worse.
Digital Economy Bill: From bad to worse
Liberal Democrat and Conservative peers seeks to bring into the bill an internet infrastructure similar to that currently enjoyed in authoritarian countries.
Is technology really good for human rights?
Is technology really good for human rights? This is the question that a selection of experts debated yesterday evening at Amnesty International’s London office.
BBC vs. The newspaper industry – mobile edition
The Independent captured the wrath of the Newspaper Publishers Association following the BBC’s announcement of mobile applications at the Mobile World Congress.
Darling’s broadband policy: too slow, too little and too late
The Chancellor’s announcement of a 50p duty for broadband was no surprise since it echoed earlier Government decisions on universal broadband. But the policy is beset by a number of problems including speed, cost, and timing. First, the use oftest