#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. @DCMS blended fixed/#Wifi 19% CAGR 2015-2020 (slower than current 29%) fixed=Wifi 1.4EB 2015 http://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/service-provider/vni-forecast-highlights.html# … #UKdigitalstrategy

2. #UKdigitalstrategy Chap1 line 1 incorrect forecasts. "Exploding" (sic) growth evidence-based policy making see #NetNeutrality book pp79-82

3. Facts in #ukdigitalstrategy out of date and wildly inaccurate in literally first 2 sentences. IP growth is slowing! https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-digital-strategy/1-connectivity-building-world-class-digital-infrastructure-for-the-uk …

4. @DCMS latest #CiscoVNI forecast 12% fixed traffic growth doubling in FIVE years to 2020, not two #UKdigitalstrategy https://www.gov.uk/government/pub

5. @DCMS used 2011 #Cisco 2013 @AnalysysMason forecasts for #IoT & traffic growth (2x in 2 yr) accurate estimates from 2016? #ukdigitalstrategy

The #partylikeits1999:

4. Not that #TonyBlair (infamously tech ignorant) had clue what #ecommerce@itsbest was about but great work by #JeremyBeale & @cabinetofficeuk

3. Those last 2 tweets on priorities for #UKdigitalstrategy were from foreword #ecommerce@itsbest signed by @Number10gov #TonyBlair Sept 1999

2. Ensure that all in society share in benefits of #UKdigitalstrategy; ecommerce high political priority; all parts of Government work together

1. #UKdigitalstrategy 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 #UKDigitalStrategy is @DameWendyDBE group on #AI - presume @EPSRC cash really new, not reheated, & aligned with @turinginst

2. #UKDigitalStrategy starts with Lloyds, Barclays, Google-by-the-Sea. Then uses #digitalasanoun to accompany #cyber #partylikeits1999

As for #OpenInternet - well nothing on #netneutrality of course but something on ITU:

@disruptivedean #UKdigitalstrategy plenty of #fullfibre #5G no #netneutrality. #OpenInternet means hands off @ITU https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-digital-strategy/5-a-safe-and-secure-cyberspace-making-the-uk-the-safest-place-in-the-world-to-live-and-work-online …