I have been doing some digging on private meetings between businesspeople and politicians in Europe - as have Monica Horten and Daithi MacSithigh (get blogging again!). It's not that we don't trust our politicians - Heaven forfend! - so much as expect a degree of transparency on a matter of censorship and freedom of expression. Today, #AskNeelie Kroes held a Q&A on Twitter which produced her stock holding answer, and Jeremy Hunt did the same at #Bigtentuk - that's Google's Big Tent, you understand...Jeremy compared superfast broadband (i.e. FTTH) to building London's sewers in the 1860s - not an unreasonable comparison, though FTTH is cheaper...
I am pleased that the UK Department of Culture has been very quick in providing a list of attendees at their private "Open Internet roundtable" (sic) from March, and a note of the meeting. The latter reveals little except that there is furious disagreement on the issue, with ISPs point blank refusing to offer proper transparency or any commitment not to block protocols they dislike - but then Tim Berners Lee had already alluded to that. I find it amusing that the only participants who refused to allow their names to be used were: "Representatives for the BBC, Google and Channel 4 did not provide their consent for their names to be released, so these have been withheld under Section 40 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information Act." Shot in own foot...Here's the list - and Heather Batchelor at Culture will supply the meeting note on request:
I am pleased that the UK Department of Culture has been very quick in providing a list of attendees at their private "Open Internet roundtable" (sic) from March, and a note of the meeting. The latter reveals little except that there is furious disagreement on the issue, with ISPs point blank refusing to offer proper transparency or any commitment not to block protocols they dislike - but then Tim Berners Lee had already alluded to that. I find it amusing that the only participants who refused to allow their names to be used were: "Representatives for the BBC, Google and Channel 4 did not provide their consent for their names to be released, so these have been withheld under Section 40 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information Act." Shot in own foot...Here's the list - and Heather Batchelor at Culture will supply the meeting note on request:
Name | Company |
Alisdair McGowan | Ebay |
Andrew Cecil | Amazon |
Andrew Heaney | Talk Talk |
Andrew Kernahan | ISPA |
Antony Walker | Broadband Stakeholder Group |
Baroness Rennie Fritchie | Nominet |
Daniel Singer | Ofcom |
David Frank | Everything, Everywhere |
Diane Coyle | BBC Trust |
Dominique Lazanski | Tax Payers Alliance |
Dr Robert Reid | Which? |
Ed Richards | Ofcom |
Ed Vaizey | DCMS |
Emma Ascroft | Yahoo! |
Gareth Reakes | WE7 |
Grant Forsyth | BSkyB |
Hamish MacLeod | Mobile Broadband Group |
Jacqui Brookes OBE | Federation of Communications Services (FCS) |
Jean-Jacques Sahel | Skype |
Jim Killock | Open Rights Group |
BBC | |
Jon James | Virgin Media |
Justine Campbell | Vodafone |
Kevin Russell | Three |
Lord Richard Allan | Facebook |
Magnus Brooke | ITV |
Martin Stott | Channel 5 |
Marzena Lipman | Consumer Focus |
Google | |
Matthew Fell | CBI |
Mike O'Connor | Consumer Focus |
Channel 4 | |
Nigel Hickson | DCMS |
Philip Milton | DCMS |
Rachel Clark | DCMS |
Robin Durie | Everything, Everywhere |
Simon Milner | BT |
Sir Tim Berners Lee | W3C |
Steve Unger | Ofcom |
Tania Baumann | Nominet |
Vicky Stephens | DCMS |
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