🚀 UK Podcasting & Audio Gets Measured!
AudioUK teams up with DCMS to map the size & economic power of the UK’s booming podcast & audio industry — laying the groundwork for smarter policy & stronger support! 📊✨
https://thepodcasting.org/audiouk-backs-dcms-study-to-measure-uk-podcast-and-audio-industry-size/
#UKPodcasting #AudioIndustry #DCMS #AudioUK #PodcastGrowth #MediaInsights #CreativeEconomy #IndustryStudy
The upcoming DCMS that will be used in qr payment for BRICS participants will be decentralized and open source compared to Swift. At least on paper (see chart) it looks interesting and promising #dcms #brics #opensource #crossborder #payment #decentralized #qrpay #b2b
Has the decline in community radio eroded the transformative potential it once had? What impact has the reduction in Key Commitments had on local voices and social cohesion? Read more on how we’re squandering a legacy of grassroots media in our latest post. #CommunityRadio #MediaPolicy #DCMS #ofcom
https://decentred.co.uk/community-radio-a-squandered-inheritance/
I am not certain what this portends but it suggests that the separation of DCMS & DSIT a few months ago may have been considered problematic by Labour
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110006
#dcms #dsit #internet #regulation
I am not certain what this portends but it suggests that the separation of DCMS & DSIT a few months ago may have been considered problematic by Labour
Chris Bryant has picked up both departments and it’s like 2020 all over again?
https://twitter.com/DCMS/status/1810249978767384606
Interesting that Lisa Nandy’s got the #DCMS brief, which suggests a continuing emphasis on #LevellingUp for #culture.
Lisa Nandy Named New U.K. Culture Minister
#Variety #Global #News #DCMS
https://variety.com/2024/film/global/new-uk-culture-minister-lisa-nandy-1236060834/
We received a letter "On His Majesty's Service" allegedly from #DCMS asking us to take part in something called the #CommunityLifeSurvey. There's no link to a .gov.uk site to verify it.
I have found a DCMS page referencing the survey domain name, so I'm now happy it's legit. But it's damn sloppy to send this out without a way for a non-nerd to verify it's not a postal #phishing attack.
We responded to the DCMS consultation on Analogue Community Radio Licensing, noting several flaws in the assumptions behind the consultation, and advocating for greater protections for truly community-run providers. Read a summary here:
Hollywood to UK Govt: Investigating Pirates “Increasingly Difficult”
https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-to-uk-govt-investigating-pirates-increasingly-difficult-231120/
One of my local gaming stores had an Urbie Derby today for charity. $10 got you a primed Urbanmech, and you had 2 hours to paint it, followed by a last-mech-standing grand melee. Lots of fun, and I’m pretty happy with my Sword of Light Urbanmech.
#battletech #urbanmech #urbiederby #housekurita #dcms #swordoflight
This week research from the #IPPR published by @guardian showed £15bn worth of publicly owned assets have been #SoldFromUnderYou since 2010 - while only a fraction of the £300m
#DCMS #YouthInvestmentFund and £150m #DLUHC
#CommunityOwnershipFund has been awarded to renew and rebuild community infrastructure.Don't let the buildings you love become another statistic #SaveOurSpaces #SaveJWB
https://www.fundsurfer.com/crowdfund/jacobs-wells-baths Artwork by Amy Hutchings
Russell Brand Allegations ‘Deeply Shocking’ Says U.K. Culture Secretary
#Variety #Global #News #DCMS #IndependentStandardsAuthority #LucyFrazer #RoyalTelevisionSocietyConference
Mandatory anti-slavery declarations risk becoming ‘box-ticking exercise’, say UK MPs | Modern slavery | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/11/mandatory-anti-slavery-declarations-risk-becoming-box-ticking-exercise-say-uk-mps
#AntiSlavery
#ModernSlavery
#MPs
#2015ModernSlaveryAct
#IGT
#Mining
#GamingTechnology
#GamingTech
#Metals
#ForcedLabour
#ChildLabour
#Loughton
#DCMS
#AntiSlaveryInternational
#Latham
For those interested in the appointment of the BBC chair, here's the report: https://publicappointmentscommissioner.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-04-28-OCPA-DECISION-NOTICE-IN-RELATION-TO-THE-APPOINTMENT-OF-CHAIR-OF-THE-BBC-BOARD-MR-RICHARD-SHARP.pdf
It seems that #DCMS gave advice to Oliver Dowden, then Sec of State for DCMS that he chose not to take.
MP John Nicolson asks Ofcom:
How come Tory MPs are interviewing the Tory Chancellor on GBNews?
#Ofcom rules are clear. MPs may not present the news or conduct political interviews.
He challenged the Ofcom boss today in the Culture Select Committee- are you satisfied with the answer?
#CommonsDCMS #johnnicolson #dcms #GBNews #jeremyhunt #gtto #estherMcvey #philDavis
Nice to be so early to something you create a paradox…
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has just published a letter to Michelle Donelan (Secretary of State for #DCMS) following on from the hearing last week. It is pretty critical of the #MinisterialPowers the explanation for which it described as "vague, speculative and unconvincing". This was directed mainly at cl 39 #OnlineSafetyBill but also cl 157
Other issues concerned Parliamentary oversight, risk assessments and transparency. See here
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33741/documents/184371/default/
For fans of ParliamentTV more must view stuff tomorrow when the Commons #DCMS Select Committee are "hosting" Julia Lopez, the Minister for Media, Data, and Digital Infrastructure. The Committee intends to ask about #DataProtection and #CyberSecurity as well as support for the #DigitalEconomy. She will be supported by a couple of civil servants: Erika Lewis, Director, Cyber Security and Digital Identity; and Sam Cannicott, Deputy Director and Head of the Office for #AI
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/5f1cd7e4-20cf-46dc-b71f-747ee79fb0ee
