A warning

September 24th, 2009 | Category: General | Comments Off

Apparently, some companies are getting calls from a character calling himself Anthony Towers, purporting to be from the Digital Britain Office or similar and wanting to discuss products and services.
I’ve never met anyone of this name and can only presume there is a scam at work. In fact a quick search reveals there is a [...]


A new (old) minister

August 6th, 2009 | Category: General | 3 Comments »

Well it’s taken a little while for an official announcement, but we have Stephen Timms installed as Digital Britain Minister. That this happened on the day Twitter went down has probably upset the communications team upstairs, but the news is getting out by more old fashioned means anyway.
For many of us, it is a return [...]


The challenge of delivery

July 13th, 2009 | Category: General | 11 Comments »

It is slightly unusual for a junior government minister to be so closely associated with a major government strategy, but over the past eight months we have seen hundreds of references to ‘Stephen Carter’s Digital Britain Report’. With his departure, we’re seeing a new focus on how the report’s recommendations will be implemented, including some [...]


Watch this space…!

June 16th, 2009 | Category: Digital Britain Report, General | 8 Comments »

Lots of coverage in the media today. All we can say is… watch this space!
Team DB


Another week … the problem of expectations

March 27th, 2009 | Category: General | 4 Comments »

The minister has been visiting overseas this week but will be right back into the Digital Britain swing from Monday.
For those of us working on the project, the level of interest and focus on the issues is way higher than many other (terribly worthy but not newsworthy) issues the government has dealt with in the [...]