Ofcom

I just applied to be a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Scotland, whose role is "to provide advice to Ofcom about the interests and opinions of people living in Scotland on communications matters."

Ofcom, for those who don’t know, is the relatively new super-regulator for the UK communications industries; yes, all of them. Apparently, it exists to "to further the interests of citizen-consumers as the communications industries enter the digital age." Funny, I thought they were already in the digital age, even if they haven’t realised it yet. I know I’ve been living there for several years already…

I was planning to apply for this before I went to see Cory Doctorow, but his talk made me realise just how much I need and want to get involved with this kind of thing.