Another digital champ steps into the ring
Apologies for missing this, but it turns out that Martha Lane-Fox isn’t the only digital champion – the BBC has one as well: Seetha Kumar, current controller of BBC Online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/04_april/17/champion.shtml
The BBC’s Chief Operating Officer Caroline Thomson told the Digital Britain summit that Seetha was to become the BBC’s first Online Access Champion.
Seetha won’t have a task force like Martha, but there will be an online access forum.
Go figure
But she’ll hace a much bugger job on her hands than Martha – the BBC has found 17 million adults still not using computers and the internet -seven million more than Martha tracked down.
Licenced premises
The BBC saya they are building on “existing BBC efforts to inspire and help people get online”, and claims that “nearly one in 10 internet users say that bbc.co.uk was one of the main reasons they first accessed the web”.
Of course, 10 in 10 licence fee payers fund bbc.co.uk.
Whether they’re online or not.
Apologies for missing this, but it turns out that Martha Lane-Fox isn’t the only digital champion – the BBC has one as well: Seetha Kumar, current controller of BBC Online.
The BBC’s Chief Operating Officer Caroline Thomson told the Digital Britain summit that Seetha was to become the BBC’s first Online Access Champion.
Seetha won’t have a task force like Martha, but there will be an online access forum, where people who aren’t online can … er …
Go figure
And she’ll have a much bigger job on her hands – the BBC has found 17 million adults still not using computers and the internet – seven million more than Martha tracked down.
Licenced premises
The BBC say they are building on “existing BBC efforts to inspire and help people get online”, and claims that “nearly one in 10 internet users say that bbc.co.uk was one of the main reasons they first accessed the web”.
Of course, 10 in 10 licence-fee payers fund bbc.co.uk.
Whether they’re online or not.
Have you seen the BBC;s digital Revolution site http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution/ and blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/ You have to be registered to comment. On 9 September I was unsuccessful. Many attempts later I’m still not accepted as a participant. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/ They describe their process of program making as ‘an open source documentary’ and say ‘we’ll be asking for advice and stories from you as we go along’ but I get the sense this is closed shop only open for select customers.