Claire Thompson, freelance PR consultant, Waves PR
Following on from last week’s Amnesty International talk, I promised to write up some short posts around subjects arising from the event.
Panel at Amnesty International Debate
The first of these was: is broadband a human right?
Now before you laugh me out of the blogosphere, consider this:
- across the globe, dictators are wanting to block it/deny access to it. There’s a reason for this!
- increasingly, governments are using the Internet to create access to their services.
Now note that this suggestion doesn’t say’ broadband to the home’ – just access to broadband.
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Claire Thompson, Waves PR
Digital Britain: who pays?
According to new research commissioned by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, only 20 per cent of the UK’s population are information savvy, so they are launching a new public awareness campaign called ‘Savvy Citizens’
The campaign hinges around a new microsite called the Savvy Citizen offering resources and expert opinion and advice across topics such as commerce, safety, culture and citizenship.
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Claire Thompson, Waves PR
In the UK, a new piece of legislation is being proposed that will see anyone reported for filesharing abuse three times automatically disconnected.
On the face of it, this is protecting people’s copyright, which, if they choose to copyright their work, they should have the option of doing. However, there is no trial, no checks and balances.
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Sir Timothy Berners-Lee interview: the father of today’s computing is incredibly articulate – another one of those amazing people who speaks ‘geek’ and human simultaneously.
Much has been made of the apology for the double backslash (http://), but just as interesting is the release of open data and explanation of the semantic web.
Wonderfully British – and some great hints for UK Government to make life better!
The questions are worth listening out for as well – particularly those relating to very rural environments.
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March 1, 2010 6:23 pm | 
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