This document provides a summary of a digital public space in 3 sentences:
The digital public space allows for open discussion and sharing of ideas through digital communication. It provides a forum for people to connect and exchange information freely without restrictions. The space aims to promote open participation and expression through technology and digital networks.
2. The BBC
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Proposals to
the BBC Trust, March
2010
3. Recommending the closure of teen offerings BBC Switch and Blast!
GUARANTEEING ACCESS—working to ensure that UK audiences can always:
Get BBC services free at the point of use, in ways and on devices that suit them
Catch up on programmes for free on the BBC’s website, at home and on the move
Access the best of the BBC’s current and future library of programmes
Guaranteeing access means, on this strategy:
Making internet-connected television a reality and a success, and continuing to support other
partnerships for free-to-air platforms
Guaranteeing free access to independent, impartial news including online
Opening the BBC’s current and future programme library, as well as working with partners like the
British Library, BFI and Arts Council England to bring other public archives to wider audiences.
MAKING THE LICENCE FEE WORK HARDER—reducing the cost of running the BBC
Making the licence fee work harder means, on this strategy, focusing the BBC’s spending on what
matters most to the public by:
Reducing the cost of running the BBC by a quarter: from 12p in a licence fee pound today to under
9p by the end of the Charter in 2016
The Digital Public Space project
Reducing senior management numbers, freezing pay and suspending bonuses
Reinvesting savings in new UK programmes serving the five content priorities
Striving to make every licence fee pound benefit the wider UK economy by at least £2, and
spreading that value across the UK.
SETTING NEW BOUNDARIES—accepting clearer limits and new behaviours for the BBC
Setting new boundaries means, on this strategy:
This is taken from page 18 of the PDF version — http://bbc.in/strategyreview
Reducing spending on imported programmes and films by 20%, capping it thereafter at no more
4. The BBC Archive:
•2.3m hours of film & video
•300,000 hours of audio
•4m photographs
•20,000 rolls of microfilm