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Industry:Digital Britain Interim Report

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ACTIVITY IDENTIFICATION
Activity Name Digital Britain Interim Report
Short Description Provide response to UK government's "Digital Britain Interim Report Jan 2009"
Related Projects None
Email Contacts & Roles Primary
Colin Watson 		Secondary
TBC 		Mailing list
Please use the Industry Committee list
ACTIVITY SPECIFICS
Objectives
  • Review interirm report - especially issue of trust in web applications
  • Where appropriate, draft a response for submission
  • Submit the response as an official OWASP statement
Deadlines
  • TBC - Produce initial draft response
  • TBC - Circulate to OWASP lists for comment (London and Scotland chapters?)
  • TBC - Deadline for comments from OWASP lists
  • TBC - Complete final draft response
  • TBC - Submit for approval by Global Industry Committee
  • TBC - Submit to Digital Britain team
Status
  • Started
Resources Interim report and call for expressions of interest, Jan 2009

Terms of reference for the report

Full (interim) report

Submit comments to TBC


Submission Response

Latest first

Final version

TBC

Draft Text version 2

TBC

Draft Text version 1

TBC

Initial Comments

Key parts of the draft report, which could relate to application security, are:

Page 7 (Box: Five objectives, second item) "A dynamic investment climate for UK digital content, applications and services, that makes the UK an attractive place for both domestic and inward investment in our digital economy".

Page 13 (Equipping everyone to benefit from Digital Britain) Very few action points provided in the draft report compared to other sections. Nothing for 'online safeguards' yet.

Pages 36-38 (3 Digital Content 3.1 The Economies of Digital Content) E-commerce growth figures / commercial challenges. No mention of trust.

Pages 59 and 61 (4.2 Driving Universal Connectivity: Take-up) User demand / Ease of use. No mention of safety/security.

Page 66 (5.2 Media Literacy) "...need to ensure a population that is confident and empowered to access, use and create digital media." Also heavy emphasis on child protection, but not other users.

Page 69 (5.3: Online Safeguards) Whole section is important but currently focuses almost only on illegal and adult content.

Page 74 (Glossary)


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