Interesting news item yesterday regarding Government policy towards QUANGOs
Business Secretary Vince Cable said:
“We are absolutely committed to reducing the number and cost of quangos that we no longer need. I have already said that I want to reduce the number of these bodies by a third and we’ve achieved a lot in a short space [...]
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End of the INCA Trail
It has been a most unexpected journey along the INCA Trail from what started out in September 2009 as merely a minor, routine enquiry to BIS Civil Servants, initially Andy Carter and latterly Simon Towler and Sam Sharps.
The concern expressed to BIS Civil Servants centred on the apparent scope creep of INCA and the worrying [...]
BDUK Industry Day – First Thoughts
Thursday 15th July 2010 saw the BDUK Industry Day take place in London with invited members of the telecommunications industry, government and others.
The overall sense of the day was of bold aspirations and genuine determination on the part of ministers, Martha Lane-Fox and the new BDUK team to start delivering positive outcomes to enable the [...]
Making The Final Third Happen
With all the talk, consultations, steering committees and the rest surrounding the Digital Britain debate and agenda, it is helpful sometimes to step back and reflect on why and for whom all the work is being undertaken.
Here is a lovely report from Country Week, the rural magazine of the Yorkshire Post, regarding the NextGenUs NANDS [...]
Deeply Rural Fi:Wi
Newton and Stape (NANDS) are two adjoining parishes in deeply rural North Yorkshire where conventional broadband is patchy at best and non-existent for the majority of the 140+ homes and businesses present.
The NextGenUs NANDS project is the first of its kind in North Yorkshire and it is hoped that NANDS can be replicated to enable [...]
Fair Shares and Funding
Copied below, with appropriate approvals, is a recent BIS email to a rural UK Community ISP.
Worthy of note is the reference to BT ducting being blocked at some point for every one of the 31 route examples quoted!
A better way to assess the true situation re actual BT duct spare capacity availability is to perform [...]