The Secretary of State for Culture Media & Sport, Karen Bradley, has launched the Government’s UK Digital Strategy. The Strategy commits to a welcome ‘major enhancement and rationalisation’ of national and local heritage records as well as considering how the planning system can be made both more efficient and give the public greater involvement through better use of data and digital tools. Although there is not a consultation to accompany the Digital Strategy, the Government will create a forum to work with the tech community to support tech sectors and innovation and the adoption of digital in the wider economy. The Alliance has already been approached by DCMS to feed into its future thinking on the cultural aspects of the Digital Strategy.
Read more in our summary of the Digital Strategy.