Baroness Martha Lane-Fox is to deliver the 2015 Richard Dimb
Posted: 30 Mar 2015, 20:08Baroness Martha Lane-Fox is to deliver the 2015 Richard Dimbleby Lecture
Since co-founding lastminute.com in 1998, Martha Lane Fox has been a leader of digital culture and access in the UK. She was for three years the government’s digital champion, working for Gordon Brown then David Cameron. In 2013, she joined the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Reflecting her passion for education, she is also the founder and chair of a digital skills charity, Go ON UK and the Chancellor of the Open University.
In the Lecture she will challenge is that everyone must understand the internet better, more critically, and make more – much more - of our digital lives.
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BBC1 10.45pm this evening
Since co-founding lastminute.com in 1998, Martha Lane Fox has been a leader of digital culture and access in the UK. She was for three years the government’s digital champion, working for Gordon Brown then David Cameron. In 2013, she joined the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Reflecting her passion for education, she is also the founder and chair of a digital skills charity, Go ON UK and the Chancellor of the Open University.
In the Lecture she will challenge is that everyone must understand the internet better, more critically, and make more – much more - of our digital lives.
Get involved
We'd love to hear your thoughts on Martha's lecture. You can tweet us: @BBC_HaveYourSay or use the hashtag #dimblebylecture.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article ... by-lecture
BBC1 10.45pm this evening