Number One in Digital (launch presentation)

#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...

#onedigital

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

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Inclusion

Driving

Economic

Growth

Digital Skills

for All

Government

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Public

Services

Digital

Citizenship:

Privacy

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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

#onedigital

Comments? Questions?

[email protected]

@labourdigital

Download the report from no1.labourdigital.org