In Approval

British Library is hosting the Digital Britain summit, which will discuss the future of Britain’s communications, be it media or mobile broadband. An important issue of discussion at the summit would be the possibility of broadband helping the country in getting over recession.

Lord Carter has high expectations from the summit, and commented that he is looking forward to participation from the communications sector. He is hoping for sharing of thoughts on how to go about further development of infrastructure, and the content and creative industries. He is also expecting to come up with ways and means to help the UK broadband providers in getting an edge over international competitors.

The list of important delegates who will be speaking at the summit includes PM Gordon Brown, culture secretary Andy Burnham, trade secretary Lord Mandelson, and communications minister Stephen Carter, who is in charge of the whole Digital Britain project

The Digital Britain summit is expected to create more interest as compared to the Digital Britain report, which was released earlier. Lord Carter is confident that the discussions will be useful in developing a conclusive strategy regarding the future of Britain’s communication.

Hopefully, this meeting would be more useful than the report, which was a failure. Most of its promises are hanging in the air, including 2Mb broadband access across Britain before 2012, work on which has not even started since the government and Ofcom are embroiled in a battle over spectrum allocation.