At 4.50pm yesterday, the Prime Minister strode into the Cabinet Office to be greeted by an unfamiliar sight. Our Race Online 2012 People’s Taskforce were sitting excitedly in the seats ordinarily reserved for secretaries of state and ministers.
They told the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) Jeremy [...]
Joining up our Networked Nation
Yesterday saw the announcement of two Government policy initiatives. In the morning came the publication of the Manifesto for a Networked Nation, a commitment to get the ten million Brits who’ve never used the internet online by 2012.
Inevitably this was upstaged by the afternoon announcement, the much anticipated White Paper on health.
Most commentators focused on [...]


