Firmly believing in putting Britain at the heart of the leading edge of knowledge industries,these will create over a quarter of a million skilled jobs by 2020.
He outlined the creation of a new institute, the institute of web science,led by Sir Tim Berners Lee, the British inventor of the world wide web and outlined three steps in the digital revolution
1.to make Britain the leading superfast broadband digital power creating 100 per cent access to every home;
2.to seize the opportunities for voice and choice in our public services by opening up data and using the power of digital technology to transform the way citizens interact with government. and
3.to economise with promises of £20b of savings based on digital technology.
According to the Prime Minister, around one in five adults in the UK, have never accessed the internet.He described them as being trapped in a second tier of citizenship and called it "unfair,economically inefficient and wholly unacceptable."
This was,he considered the justification for the 50p levy on phonelines to fund a partnership with the private sector for a superfast broadband network right across Britain.
He also announced a more interactive second generation form of digital engagement called Mygov.
Today you can book and pay for a holiday online in minutes. Why can't you do that for a blue badge for a disabled person? With Mygov you will.
You can deal with your bank when and where you want, at any time that suits you. Why can't you do that with your Jobcentre? With Mygov you will.
Just to give it a kick,Martha Lane Fox has agreed to help establish a new digital public services unit in the cabinet office.
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