Corbyn Promises to ‘Democratise the Internet’ – Politics Live

Summary

Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Jeremy Corbyn’s speech on digital democracy.

Here are more proposals from Jeremy Corbyn’s digital democracy manifesto. This summary is taken from the news release from Corbyn’s team released overnight.

The Digital Democracy manifesto includes plans for a:

• Universal Service Network – We will deliver high speed broadband and mobile connectivity for every household, company and organisation in Britain from the inner city neighbourhoods to the remotest rural community.
• Open Knowledge Library – We will create a free-to-use on-line hub of learning resources for the National Education Service.
• Programming For Everyone – We will require that all publicly funded software and hardware is released under an Open Source licence.