Although superfast broadband is available to more consumers than ever before, even in the UK nearly 2.3% of premises cannot receive a broadband speed greater than 10Mbit/s, rising to around 48% of premises in rural areas.
Having access to high quality, widespread broadband is essential to our working and social lives. As we continue to digitally transform, the infrastructure that serves businesses and individuals will only continue to impact further on how much we can achieve. How can we ensure that broadband restrictions do not impact on success?
How do we help rural communities achieve socio-economic flourishing through 5G?; A talk by Professor Katy Mason and Sharon Wagg, Lancaster University Management School.
Liverpool 5G create; A talk by Ann Williams, Commissioner and Contract Manager, Liverpool City Council.
May 2017
The West Midlands have had a strong turn-out in the DL100 line-up this year, with 4 finalists within 4 of the 10 categories, including: Cross Sector Digital Collaboration of the Year Digital Council of the Year Digital SME of the Year Mobile Innovation of the Year Once again […]
May 2017
The South West had a strong turn-out in the 2017 DL100 line-up, with 6 finalists within 5 of the 10 categories, including: Digital Charity of the Year Digital Council of the Year Digital Leader of the Year Digital Public Service Innovation of the Year Mobile Innovation of […]
May 2017
The South East had a strong turn-out in the 2017 DL100 line-up, with 11 finalists within 9 of the 10 categories. These also included including 3 category winners being Mobile Innovation of the Year, Friend Finder; Digital SME of the Year, UKCloud and Cyber Resilience Innovation of the […]
April 2017
Building the future of government service delivery: week 1 at Lab+ The Lab+ work is being led by the Service Innovation Team in the Department of Internal Affairs (external site link). It is part of the Better Public Services Result 10 agenda (external site link), which is focused on […]
April 2017
Rural areas have been left in the dust when it comes to staying up to speed in the digital age here in the US. Thirty-nine percent of rural Americans and 41 percent of tribal lands lack access to basic 25 Mpbs broadband service. Compare those […]
March 2017
Over 11 million people in the UK still lack Basic Digital Skills Over two thirds of those offline say nothing will motivate them to use the internet Nearly three-quarters of offline consumers don’t believe they’ll save money by being online 30% of people can’t manage […]
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