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January 13, 2010
Bitter words cut short US-Cuba progress
...responded with trifles, sanctions and subversion.” Wayne Smith, who opened the US mission’s interests section under Jimmy Carter’s presidency, said US-Cuban relations appeared at stalemate. “The Obama administration is now suggesting that...services. Washington insists he was simply working for a Maryland-based aid organisation called Development Alternatives Inc, on contract with the US Agency for International Development to promote democracy in Cuba. “Havana clearly views President... By Marc Frank in Havana
January 13, 2010
Bitter words cut short progress on US-Cuba ties
...responded with trifles, sanctions and subversion." Wayne Smith, who opened the US mission's interests section under Jimmy Carter's presidency, said US-Cuban relations appeared at stalemate. "The Obama administration is now suggesting that it cannot...services. Washington insists he was simply working for a Maryland-based aid organisation called Development Alternatives Inc, on contract with the US Agency for International Development to promote democracy in Cuba. "Havana clearly views President... By Marc Frank
January 13, 2010
Bitter words cut short US-Cuba progress
...responded with trifles, sanctions and subversion." Wayne Smith, who opened the US mission's interests section under Jimmy Carter's presidency, said US-Cuban relations appeared at stalemate. "The Obama administration is now suggesting that it cannot...services. Washington insists he was simply working for a Maryland-based aid organisation called Development Alternatives Inc, on contract with the US Agency for International Development to promote democracy in Cuba. "Havana clearly views President... By Marc Frank
January 13, 2010
Google's drive to put books online needs a wider debate
...marginalises further the literature of other languages. The British government has nothing to say: the digital Britain of Lord Carter's report twitters and blogs, goes online to renew its driving licences and watch television, and to engage in high frequency... By John Kay
June 16, 2009
Digital Britain
...fibre optic data networks. A proposed £6-a-year levy on every copper-wire fixed line in Britain – part of Stephen Carter’s drive to wire up 90 per cent of UK households with super-fast “next generation” broadband by 2017 – will raise the price...
June 16, 2009
Observers query achievements
Lord Carter’s initial claims for the Digital Britain white paper left many industry observers questioning its final achievements. Jeremy Hunt... By Philip Stafford
June 16, 2009
Taxpayers face bill to meet costs
Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report quotes Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, as saying: “One must verify or expel his doubts, and... By FT Reporters
June 19, 2009
Only market solution will put pirates to the sword
...battle, legislate, write to you to ask you to desist and finally – ahaar! – forcibly curb your piratical ways. Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report talks tough on reducing illegal downloads. But while it aims to give the music companies, moviemakers... By Andrew Hill
June 16, 2009
UK faces broadband tax
...health were at stake. “The trust will not sit quietly by and watch this happen,” he said. Sir Michael dismissed Lord Carter’s compromise that the 3.5 per cent limit should be enshrined in the BBC’s constitution. He said: “History tells us these... By Andrew Parker and Ben Fenton
May 28, 2009
Connecting the world: Ubiquity will be a hard state to reach
...prospect of a “digital divide” excluding the unconnected, and not just in the developing world. In the UK, Lord Stephen Carter’s interim report on Digital Britain, published in January, calculated that the country’s digital economy accounted for 8 per... By Stephen Pritchard