Full, unedited video from the Digital Britain Summit of 17 April plus speech-to-text transcription (again unedited), has now been uploaded to a permanent page on this site.
You can access this any time via the main navigation in the right-hand column.
As there were seven hours of content in total, we’ve split it up chronologically. The main Summit page has a quick-ref guide showing you what video and text content is on which page, to help you find what you’re looking for quickly. Enjoy.
Here is the complete footage of the first discussion panel from Friday’s summit (which we were unable to stream live). The session title was “Fixing the plumbing: preparing for tomorrow’s digital networks today”. Be warned – this clip is 50 minutes long. The accompanying live blog coverage is here.
We will be uploading unedited footage from the entire day here on this site in due course, and edited highlights of the Ministerial speeches on BERR’s YouTube channel.
We have also added a few more photos from the day to our Flickr account.
The summit on Friday went really well. There was a good buzz around the event and some telling contributions on stage. And – technical issues notwithstanding – there was obviously an interested audience in the wider world, something several of the newspapers seemed to pick up on.
We’re grateful for everyone’s contribution over this site and Twitter, and we’ll be trying to make sure none of this gets lost as we move forward to the final report. In the meantime we’ll keep you informed on this site as things happen. The publication today of the New Industry, New Jobs paper and the Budget on Wednesday should give us all plenty to talk about for the time being…
The one-day Digital Britain Summit, held on 17 April 2009 at the British Library, brought together key organisations and individuals to debate how best to equip Britain for a digital future.
Follow the links below for complete, unedited videos of the day’s proceedings, along with an unedited speech-to-text transcript. The summit was also streamed, liveblogged and live-tweeted. The blog coverage has been grouped together under one category for ease of reference.
To make seven hours of video and speech-to-text content more easily digestible, they have been split up into individual pages according to the summit agenda. Although if you need the full transcript (all 138 pages of it) its available here digital-britain-summit-full-transcript.
Speaker: Rt. Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Speaker: Rt. Hon Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister
Panel 1: Fixing the plumbing: preparing for tomorrow’s digital networks today
Expert moderator: Francesco Caio, Vice Chairman, Nomura Europe & Digital Britain Steering Board Member
Panellists: Neil Berkett, CEO, Virgin Media; Ronan Dunne, CEO, Telefonica O2 UK; Ian Livingstone, Chief Executive of BT Group; Stuart McIntosh, Competition Partner, Ofcom
Speaker: Rt. Hon Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Panel 2: The new digital arms race
Panellists: Stephen A. Carter, Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting; Samuel Sun, CEO Huawei Technologies; Hiroyuki Hishinuma, Director for New Competition Policy, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan; John Higgins, Director General, Intellect
Speaker: John Fingleton, Chief Executive, Office of Fair Trading
Panel 3: Promoting the Poetry: joining the dots between creativity and digital content
Expert moderator: Anthony Lilley, Chief Executive, Magic Lantern Productions
Panellists: Lucian Grange, CEO, Universal Music; Johannes B. Larcher, Senior Vice President of International, Hulu; Dan Hon, Co-founder and CEO, Six to Start; Jess Search, Chief Executive, Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation
Panel 4: Being digital: equipping society for the digital future
Expert moderator: Anthony Chitty, MD, Illumina Digital & Digital Britain Steering Board Member
Panellists: Will Hutton, Chief Executive, The Work Foundation; Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, British Library; Caroline Thompson, COO, BBC; Stephen Fry, Broadcaster and Technophile
