About this site

This site is designed to facilitate online debate around the issues raised as part of the Digital Britain Review. This site simply provides individuals with the opportunity to share their views with each other and with us. However, we will answer any factual questions you have and feed your comments through to the Steering Board.

Try to keep your comments short – we won’t generally publish comments longer than 500 words, or we may ask you to summarise them.

The Digital Britain Steering Board Secretariat has sole responsibility for the editorial content and management of the Digital Britain website and by submitting a comment to this site you agree to abide by the full Terms and Conditions covering this discussion site. The Digital Britain Steering Board Secretariat reserves the right not to publish comments that contravene the BIS moderation policy and any queries relating to material published on the website should be directed to the Steering Board Secretariat.

This blog started up as a means of gathering views during the period we were developing policy and writing the Digital Britain Report. It was originally created by Ofcom (though Ofcom is not responsible for any of the content) and is now hosted and supported by the BIS Digital team, to whom any technical issues should be reported.

Since publication of the final report, the level of interest has remained reasonably high, and, for as long as that remains the case it seemed sensible to keep live an outlet for updates and discussion.

This blog is maintained by civil servants in between other things they have to do. While it is here to talk about Government policy, it is not intended as a place to lay out official lines in an official way and does not purport to be the voice of Ministers. It will sometimes contain musings and comment that veer into the personal. We hope this makes for a slightly better read than a totally on-message communique.

Comments, criticism and ideas are welcome. Please keep it civil though.

Images

The images of Parliament and Big Ben on this site are from the Parliament Flickr channel and used under a Creative Commons license.