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Friday, March 03, 2017

#UKDigitalStrategy failures and successes

It's never easy writing a digital strategy when staying in the EU to encourage skilled immigration and capital, and pushing fintech/blockchain 5 years ago, should have been your priorities. But the UK version published Wednesday contained so much retread from the magnificent and genuinely ground-breaking 1999 Cabinet Office ecommerce@its.best.uk that I felt obliged to retweet the 1999 version to see if anyone could see any top-level differences. They couldn't because there weren't - unless you count changing 3G to 5G?
But my biggest beef with the 'don't mention Brexit we're British' was not #digitalasanoun or #cybercybercyber. It was the first 2 sentences of Chapter 1 which repeat the "exploding Internet growth" incorrect meme that I rail against in the book:
1.  blended fixed/ 19% CAGR 2015-2020 (slower than current 29%) fixed=Wifi 1.4EB 2015
2.  Chap1 line 1 incorrect forecasts. "Exploding" (sic) growth evidence-based policy making see book pp79-82
4.  latest forecast 12% fixed traffic growth doubling in FIVE years to 2020, not two
5.  used 2011 2013 forecasts for & traffic growth (2x in 2 yr) accurate estimates from 2016?
The #partylikeits1999:
4. Not that (infamously tech ignorant) had clue what @itsbest was about but great work by &
3. Those last 2 tweets on priorities for were from foreword @itsbest signed by Sept 1999
2. Ensure that all in society share in benefits of ; ecommerce high political priority; all parts of Government work together
1.  3 points: facilitate access to technology & networks, to enhance potential of e-commerce, & create trusted environment
But there was good news:
1. Good news in is group on - presume cash really new, not reheated, & aligned with
2.  starts with Lloyds, Barclays, Google-by-the-Sea. Then uses to accompany
As for #OpenInternet - well nothing on #netneutrality of course but something on ITU:

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