Gordon Brown is to be a keynote speaker at the Digital Britain summit at the British Library in London. The summit aims to address the future of Britain’s communications, from the media to mobile broadband and everything in between, in particular the role that broadband can have in pulling the country out of recession.

The PM will be joined by culture secretary Andy Burnham, trade secretary Lord Mandelson, and of course communications minister and Digital Britain ringleader Stephen Carter. The summit will also involve a wealth of interested parties from the media, telecoms and technology industries in a day of debate, which will hopefully garner more public interest than did the report of the same name.

Lord Carter commented: “This summit will bring together some of the leading thinkers in the digital economy. Their views on how to develop our infrastructure, develop our content and creative industries and keep pace with international competition will be invaluable as we finalise our thinking over the next two months.”

Odd that he should still be speaking in terms of ‘finalised thinking’, when the Digital Britain report seemed to be somewhat less than decisive on any of the matters in hand, and the government and Ofcom between them have still failed to resolve many of the spectrum allocation issues standing in the way of one of the stated aims: 2MB broadband access for the whole of the Britain by 2012.

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