number one in digital (launch presentation)
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Presentation given at the launch of "Number One in Digital" by Labour DigitalTRANSCRIPT
#onedigital
Launch Event
23 September 2014
Hashtag: #onedigital
#onedigitalThe first comprehensive Labour view of digital policy
• 2014 is the year of the “Digital Manifesto”
– TechUK, Policy Exchange, COADEC,TalkTalk ...
• Number One in Digital: first major digital policy statement
associated with any UK political party
• 82 recommendations
– Comprehensive review of all aspects of digital
– A wishlist, not a manifesto
– Some ideas about now, some about the future, some
more experimental
#onedigitalWhy?
• Purpose
– Make it easy for Labour to develop its manifesto
commitments for digital
– Show tech community that Labour is serious about
digital
– Create platform for debate
– Shift the debate from Britain being “a” leader to being
“the” leader
• Feedback: hello@labourdigital or tweet @labourdigital
#onedigital
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Process & Sources
DIGITAL SKILLS FOR
TOMORROW’S WORLD
The independent report of the UK Digital Skills Taskforce
Beta Edition July 2014
INTERIM REPORT
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A Leading Digital Nation by 2020:
Calculating the cost of delivering
online skills for all!!
What is the investment needed to get everyone in the UK using the internet regularly
with Basic Online Skills?!
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Report by Catherine McDonald, for Tinder Foundation and Go ON UK, February 2014!
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Lots of other sources too...
Ideas crowdsourced from our 300+ members at ideas.labourdigital.org
thanks to...
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Jon Cruddas
Foreword to Number One in Digital
As coordinator of Labour’s
Policy Review I believe our
priority is to make the UK
the number one country in
the digital revolution.
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#onedigital82 recommendations across 5 themes
Number One in Digital
National programme UK Digital Board reporting to PM National Fund for Digital Creativity
Connectivity
&
Inclusion
Driving
Economic
Growth
Digital Skills
for All
Government
&
Public
Services
Digital
Citizenship:
Privacy
&
Politics
#onedigitalConnectivity & Inclusion
• National delivery of 1Gbps broadband to homes,
businesses and public buildings
– 10Gbps services for tech-clusters
• Assess viability of providing free basic internet access
to all citizens.
• Mandate BT to provide broadband services to homes
without the need for a second telephone line
– review dominant position of BT in infrastructure
provision
#onedigitalDriving Economic Growth
• Increase late stage technology funding: relaunch tax
incentives for corporate venture capital
• Support for fintech industry
– “preferred status” vs. banks, plus marketing budget
– reviewing existing laws and regulations
• “Digital Ombudsman” to protect SMEs
• Mandate retail banks to provide customers with API
access to their transaction data
#onedigitalDigital Skills for All
• A national fund for digitally upskilling the UK
• Reform visa regulations: a one-year “Programmers’
Passport”
• Negotiate with MOOC providers to deliver quality
higher education at a fraction of the price of existing
qualifications
#onedigitalGovernment & Public Service
• Require government departments and local authorities to
publish annual digitisation progress reports
• Expose 50% of all APIs for transactional services by
2018
#onedigitalDigital Citizenship: Privacy
• A Digital Magna Carta
• Ensure that data is owned by and accessible to the
individual from whom it was been collected
• Royal Commission: publicly-owned data infrastructure
• Service to permanently delete personal and sensitive
data from web
• UK online federated identity management framework
#onedigitalDigital Citizenship: Politics
• Online voting for national and local UK elections
• Online participation & voting in all local public meetings
• Allocate 20% of the House of Lords electoral college to
the public to vote on legislation online
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Comments? Questions?
@labourdigital
Download the report from no1.labourdigital.org