With Finland’s obstinacy to make universal access of the Internet to their entire population by 2015, a shockwave of influence has been sent across Europe, but Finland are taking it to another level, they are promising connections of 100mbps…a servicethey believe is a “Legal right”…

Here, in the UK, the signs of influence are starting to show. It is great to see the Digital Inclusion taskforce and Race for 2012 really stepping up a gear…with government announcing that they plan to disintermediate many public services and transfer them onto the web, universal access/digital inclusion will be a vital step in the right direction for Gov 2.0 aspirations…

…Furthermore, today, a Sunday of all days..some exciting news was unveiled on the Andrew Marr show, of plans for the UK to deploy a 100mb universal access service by 2017.

The questions of disintermediation, universal access raises all sorts of questions, but let’s focus on the positives briefly…the opportunities of universal access are too great to ignore. The Internet will become less of a comodity for the ‘Information Rich/Elite’ and instead will create a level playing field that bridges the digital divide, to offer equal opportunity, and national savings of around 9 billion a year (PWC, 2009)

Check this article for further details from the Andrew Marr show.