Archive for February, 2009
Connectivity Scorecard 2009
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Leonard Waverman, of the London Business School, recently published the Connectivity Scorecard 2009, a follow-up to a 2008 scorecard he produced.
The scorecard is one of the more comprehensive efforts to benchmark performance, given its global nature and its composite metrics that provide a more useful view of connectivity within a country. Interestingly, the US comes [...]
Creating the digital citizen of the future? Knowledge and confidence is key
Friday, February 13th, 2009The Government’s Digital Britain report rightly devotes a chapter to how you can “equip everyone to benefit” from the digital future.
Whilst much of the commentary around the report has focused on infrastructure, broadband speeds and protection of copyright online, the important issue of how to drive take-up has been somewhat overlooked.
Such an oversight would be [...]
Broadband v snow
Saturday, February 7th, 2009Last Monday saw snow bring the majority of England to a standstill, and disrupted many businesses. But the ability to work from home remotely meant that the disruption for some was less than it otherwise might have been.
ISP PlusNet have produced data showing that the amount of VPN and other associated traffic on their network [...]