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Article: Is an All-Party Parliamentary Group on New Media needed?
- Article from:
- New Media Age
- Article date:
- August 3, 2006
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I've written before about the limited engagement by politicians with new media industries, so it was with great excitement that I came across the new All-Party Parliamentary Group on New Media. Could this informal grouping of cross-party parliamentarians be an effective means of fostering closer ties with companies working in new media, or will it prove to be merely a talking shop for MPs?
While All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) have no formal place in the British legislature, they're an effective way of bringing together parliamentarians and interested parties. Regarded as relatively informal compared with other cross-party bodies, such as Select ...