I’m in Watershed at the NextGen Broadband Roadshow
Summary so far:
Fibre to every home please. There’s no Plan B if we want serious connectivity. Why do we want serious connectivity?
- economic benefit
- social fabric, inclusion, education, community (“not pink and fluffy ‘community’, but the places we all live and work”)
- competition: other countries are doing this now
- new things we don’t know exist yet, but will invent
How to do this? Either:
- a £30bn top-down project involving government and large private business (telecommunication businesses), for which THERE IS NO EFFECTIVE BUSINESS CASE, plus, having been involved as a small player in big telco projects, the thought of doing this top-down is worrying.
- or ground-up: local businesses and organisations organising demand and creating local business cases. More appealing; we need to do all the work locally, but we get what we need, not the mismatched love-child of Whitehall policy and blue-chip telco sales ability.
Low on blogging juice…this event being covered much better here:
http://www.connectingbristol.org/category/bristol/
Also on Twitter (for the raw take): http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23cbnnga
