Comments on: 8 questions – an Irish based digital legal content centre

By: rossmcguire

rossmcguire — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:38:23 +0000

Fionn – cheers for bringing those reports up your post. We have sent invitations to both Lord Carter and Minister Eric Besson, and are working hard to bring both to the Institute.
- Ross

By: johnnyryan

johnnyryan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:29:57 +0000

Fionn, Thanks – someone at the IIEA has been looking into those reports.
By the way have you seen this?

http://www.yourtechstuff.com/techwire/2009/03/why-give-grants-to-tech-startups.html

(discussion following the SBP piece on Indecon’s report on SFI research)?

By: Fionn Murtagh

Fionn Murtagh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:58:53 +0000

All,

I have been writing a summary of the interim report on Digital Britain.

I have also been summarizing a more complete report, with coverage of the software industry in Europe, the need for “mutualization” of infrastructure resource in support of universal access to fiber optic, the serious gaming sector, digital dividend, rights management, and so on, is France Numérique 2012 (Digital France 2012), Plan de développement de l’économie numérique, 79pp,, Oct. 2008. See
http://francenumerique2012.fr
It is worth a read.

Fionn

By: Fionn Murtagh

Fionn Murtagh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:58:34 +0000

All,

I haven’t read the following yet but it seems well worth a close look:

Digital Britain: The Interim Report
(Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, UK)
Jan. 2009, 86 pp.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/digital_britain_interimreportjan09.pdf

Fionn

By: Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:38:54 +0000

The company I run is an exemplar of a digital legal hub. We operate under an international treaty (Cape Town 2001) and all our transactions are on-line. If you buy, sell, lease or loan money for an aircraft you must register your interest with the International Registry (IR). The IR is based in Dublin and uses PKI and digital signatures to ensure that our records are useable in court. I would be very interested in joining discussions regarding this policy area.

By: Fionn Murtagh

Fionn Murtagh — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:59:55 +0000

It seems to me that these threads are not being pursued as vigorously as in the past weeks.

I feel that the idea of e.g. an International Content (or Digital Media) Services Centre is an excellent idea. It should be global in scope. Rather than music, I have in mind far more the converging film/television/games/Internet sector with applications to distance learning, e-society, and new sectors in the culture industries.

An implication is that we should end analog television as soon as possible and not wait out the time up to 2012. In the US there has been a stay on this until June. We should instead move on this as soon as possible, because it will help – in a small way – with the distribution and delivery of content. We could map out other opportunities and benefits that will ensue.

A ‘centre’ can be distributed just as the IFSC was to begin with.

Fionn