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Wales on the Web; The Gregynog Papers

Author: Andrew Green
Category: Reference
Publisher: Institute of Welsh Affairs
ISBN: 1 904773 03 6
Year: 2005
Subject: Internet, World Wide Web, Wales, Institute of Welsh Affairs, Gregynog University
Description: This Gregynog Paper is about how Wales appears in the online universe, and what technologies, including the World Wide Web, can offer the Welsh People. Focusing on content, rather than the technical aspects of the internet. What is special about Wales in the the world of the Internet? Andrew Green (the National Librarian, addresses this question and comes up with a set of practical recommendations on how Wales can improve its presence on the World Wide Web, including the notion of establishing a Welsh `virtual embassy`.

This is the twelfth Paper that has arisen out of a seminar organised by the Institute of Welsh Affairs at Gregynog University of Wales Conference Centre near Newtown, Powys.

The seminar out of which this paper was produced was held in March 2004. In addition to the author, those who attended the seminar were John Osmond, Institute of Welsh Affairs, Sue Balson, Managing Director of FBA, The Aberystwyth design, marketing and communications company and Wales` representative on the Content Board of Ofcom; Alison Coleman, Director of Culturenet Cymru; Rhys David, Associate Director IWA; Gayle Evans, Head of Duocumentation, Knowledge and Information Management, National Museums and Galleries of Wales; Linda Tomos, Director of CyMAL: Museums Archives Libraries Wales. Welsh Assembly Government; Miranda Morton, Actions Manager, Cymru Ar-lein, Welsh Assembly Government; Brian Roussel, Lucida Consulting, Llangattock, Monmouthshire; Wil Stephens, Head of Media, FBA; Iain Tweedale, Assistant Editor, New Media, BBC Wales; and Hywel Wiliam, Head of Broadcasting and Telecommunications Wales, Ofcom.
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