From PM's speech today ("Building Britain's Digital Future" - see http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page22897)
"Today I can announce the first funding for the next stage of this research -  30m pound-  to support the creation of a new institute, the institute of web science - based here in Britain and working with government and British business to realise the social and economic benefits of advances in the web.
It will assemble the best of world scientists and researchers and be headed by Sir Tim Berners Lee, the British inventor of the world wide web - and the leading web science expert Professor Nigel Shadbolt.
This will help place the UK at the cutting edge of research on the semantic web and other emerging web and internet technologies, and ensure that government is taking the right funding decisions to position the UK as a world leader. And we will invite universities and private sector web developers and companies to join this collaborative project."

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http://redcatco.com/blog/technology/gordon-brown-announces-second-generation-government/

是个好消息。