The UK government has published its latest pile of policy-related paperwork that it claims will help shape the UK’s growing digital sector.
The government’s grandly titled “Plan for Digital Regulation” acknowledges that technology is one of the “UK’s most dynamic and important industries” contributing £151bn towards the UK economy in 2019 and sets out a “ground-breaking approach to the way we govern tech in this country.”
Publishing its policy paper, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) insists government should “only regulate when absolutely necessary and do so in a proportionate way.”
And in a bid to harness this area of growth it’s keen for people within the tech sector to submit their ideas on how government can help “reduce red tape and cut down on cumbersome and confusing policy so businesses are freed to come up with new ideas, grow their firms and create new jobs and prosperity.”