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Strategic Content Alliance mission statement

If the UK is to realise the full potential of the web and every citizen to realise their own potential - in the workplace, in their places of learning and in the home - the full range of digital content needs to be made available to all, quickly, easily and in a form appropriate to the users’ needs.  The Strategic Content Alliance is committed to improving the UK’s digital content holdings, ensuring a better return on public investment through co-ordinating resources and expertise so that good practice is advanced among those serving the British people.

Strategic Content Alliance Board

The Strategic Content Alliance (‘Alliance’) convenes a Board of its sponsors on a quarterly basis which plans, directs and advises on future activity and investment. The Board is made up of representatives from the UK sponsoring organisations of the Strategic Content Alliance. Strategic Content Alliance blog

Convening the Alliance Board, ensures a higher level of co-ordination of content provision activities between the current sponsoring organisations as well as facilitating the following benefits.

The Board:

• encourages and nurtures new collaborations
• allows a forum for knowledge sharing and expansion
• develops future models for convergence
• reduces potential duplication of effort

As each sponsoring organisation delivers a major set of online services to their users and is in command of significant resources that can directly influence the quality and direction of content services in their area, the Alliance Board is an essential forum to share and develop common public purposes, especially with regard to culture, education, research and learning.

Terms of Reference of the Board are available on demand from Sarah Fahmy

See a list of members