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Digital Question Time
techUK, the tech. industry lobbying group . together with the BCS and Computer Weekly convened a question time session, and invited the three largest parliamentary parties to send representatives, Ed Vaizey, Chi Onwurah & Julian Huppert
- The event took place on Feb 9th and both I and the organisers took some time to review our notes and in my case make this story. I made this public about a month later and looked to use the tag #DigitalQT to find the tweets. Computer Weekly covered the event with several stories and the first tweet below has a link to a video of the event. The tweets are mainly in date order but the first few are organised to highlight other, more complete commentaries.
Watch all the video highlights from our #DigitalQT event with @edvaizey @ChiOnwurah @julianhuppert - http://ow.ly/JgyXr- @techUK summarise the subjects discussed,
#digitalQT ‘MPs clash over privacy, internet access and start-ups as General Election looms’ @V3_co_uk see more here: http://bit.ly/1AqEBUa- Bruan Glick of Computer Weekly publishes, his take on the event, the article has several further hyperlinks
- Why it's time for the IT community to engage with politicians - blog by me: http://ow.ly/J05Zb #DigitalQT
- The Guardian says,
Vaizey calls for tech firms to 'meet politicians halfway' over encryptionDavid Cameron's controversial comments on whether the government should "allow" the use of strong encryption technology for anti-surveillance purposes have been defended by Ed Vaizey, the minister for culture and the digital economy. Vaizey called for technology firms to "meet politicians halfway" on sensitive issues around privacy and internet safety, rather than react furiously with accusations that politicians do not understand the technology.- Frustrating that many commentators allow Vaizey the last word on censorship; the problem is the technology, backdoors have no morals and in order to control software you have to criminalise/prohibit the knowledge of its construction. The so-called porn filters also control software configuration content.
- Comments on Digital Inclusion
#DigitalQT 25% of households do not have broadband, how can we include those not currently able to connect to the internet
#DigitalQT great to talk about GDS etc but what about addressing digital exclusion. What about those who cannot access the net?
#DigitalQT Q&A: On digital govt @ChiOnwurah calls for a platform that local, national & 3rd party providers can share pic.twitter.com/eXv9Wli0jk- #DigitalQT need to make Government a place that I.T. talent wants to work @ChiOnwurah
- #DigitalQT a web site is not a platform, that's you that is GOD'S. @ChiOnwurah
- I was caught by the spellchecker, that's meant to be GDS and it's a great slogan to summarise the limits of the cultural revolution in the cabinet office, even if they call it a Digital Publication platform and not a web site.
- I forget what provoked this, but I rather like this....
- #DigitalQT Tory party policy on EU is not sulky withdrawal. @edvaizey
- it was probably an explicit request for a position by Big Business i.e. #techUK who are generally in favour of staying in the EU.
.@techUKdepCEO in @ComputerWeekly: why Pro-Europe parties should unite around UK vision for digital single market http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Pro-European-parties-should-unite-around-a-UK-vision-for-the-digital-single-market …- #DigitalQT Huppert says should be an easy to fail environment for startups so people can move on. < a particularly British problem
- Above a reply be me, to Huppert on British finance's approach to failure and below to him while he was trying to get down with the Geeks saying that he could use regex,
- #DigitalQT regex is so 20th century
- #DigitalQT Coalition has not met the challanges set by the previous government. Universal broadband & Digital inclusion @ChiOnwurah
Digital Question Time: Growing UK techEurope, growth initiatives for startups and the need for a mature conversation between politicians and the IT industry about security, were among the hot topics discussed at a Computer Weekly debate on government digital policies, held yesterday (9 February) ahead of the general election in May.
