Access To The Internet

The Government’s newly published Digital Britain implementation plan offers an insight into how it aims to govern, enact and implement the recommendations in the first draft of the report.

Although, the report is full of jargons like any other government paper, it does lay an outline for fixing duties of various people for specific needs to get the plan up and running. The plan, a 27-page document, also has a work map for the improvement of the broadband network in the country and includes possible ways to tackle the issues related with P2P filesharing.

The most striking part of the plan is the government’s decision to leave the issues of illegal filesharing and online copyright infringement to the telecoms watchdog, Ofcom. Ofcom would be authorised to lay down rules for internet service providers to prevent illegal filesharing and copyright violation by making use of the different technologies available for this purpose.

Furthermore, the Government has allowed Ofcom to use its ‘backstop powers’ if there is no improvement in the condition after a year. The Governments’ intentions and expectations from this move are not known and ‘backstop powers’ continues to remain a mysterious term even after repeated appeals for its definition.

The entire plan has been divided into small steps, which is sure to help in the process of its implementation. It also does well in fixing clear-cut responsibilities and duties but it lacks the more important details of its execution, thus, failing to be as comprehensive as it ought to have been.

In her first speech today as, Britain’s Digital Inclusion Champion, Martha Lane Fox categorically stated that providing broadband connectivity to Britain’s six million poorest citizens is her first priority.

Martha Lane Fox was speaking at the Reboot Britain conference held in London, where she made this announcement. She has been appointed to the post of Digital Inclusion Champion after the release of the Government’s Digital Britain report, which envisages such a role to help spread broadband access to the whole of the country and to the low-income group people in particular.

Since her appointment, Fox has been around the country visiting a number of UK Online Centres to meet the first-time internet users and understand their queries and concerns, according to BBC reports.

During the course of her speech, Fox outlined the fact that 80% of the government’s interactions happen with the poorest 25% of the population, and that the government as a result had a large amount of information on these people, which means that targeting them for such schemes would be quite practical. Getting these people access to broadband is not only the right thing to do, she said, it would also help reduce the cost of governance, as the government will be able to save money through digital communication.

Outlining her plans, Fox stated that she intends to spend at least two days a week working on the Government’s digital inclusion project and any citizen who wished to follow her progress can check her Twitter page at www.twitter.com/Marthalanefox. Or for a more straightforward look at the situation look at Broadband Genie, for provider reviews and news from the likes of Be Broadband and the other top internet service providers.

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