Digital Inclusion Champion Martha Lane Fox is presenting the keynote speech at ‘Digital Engagement – Empowering Citizens and Government through Digital Technology’ conference and exhibition.

Martha co-founded lastminute.com, Europe’s largest travel and leisure website with business partner Brent Hoberman in 1998. Founder of Lucky Voice, a private Karaoke experience in selected bars which has a growing online community; she is also Founder and Chair of Antigone.org.uk, her own grant-giving foundation. Martha was appointed as the government’s first Digital Inclusion Champion in June 2009.

Hosted by Ten Alps, this one day event will bring together a hand picked delegation along with key organisations who will play an integral role in empowering the citizen and Government to make better use of Public Services.
The pressure for delivering world class public services is growing increasingly in a world where more and more transactions are completed via the web. In order to keep up with the Digital Revolution, Government must innovate to transform.

At the recent launch of the Digital Britain report, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, “The Digital age presents huge opportunities for individually-tailored public services, mainly delivered electronically and always with great efficiency. Government must be at the forefront of this modernisation”

Martha Lane Fox, will lead a host of speakers, including, Tom Loosemore of 4iP, Helen Milner of UK Online Centres, Kip Meek, Chair of the Broadband Stakeholder Group, Gary Ashby of NHS Choices, Richard Wilson of Involve Thinktank, Steph Gray of BIS, Martin Ferguson of Socitim, Nick Jones of the COI, Robert Ling of Yorkshire Forward and Michael Cross of the Guardian; at this timely summit, which will take place on 6th October 2009 at Church House Conference Centre, Westminster.

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