About Public Voice
Public Voice is the leading coalition campaigning for citizens’ interests in communications policy and regulation.
We are currently living through a massive change in the media and communications landscape. For many people, the days of just four (or five) analogue television channels are a distant memory. Digital switchover has already started in the UK, and will progress region by region until 2012. Meanwhile linear programming is giving way to ‘on-demand’ and new technologies such as mobile TV and broadband grow and converge.
With the speed of technological developments transforming and shaping the way we send and receive information about the world, Public Voice believes it is now more important than ever to represent the interests of citizens, civil society and the third sector in communications – in particular the estimated 50% of the UK population who are involved with voluntary and community work.
With a steering group comprised of voluntary sector umbrella bodies, community broadcasters, voluntary organisations with programmes of work with public service broadcasters and voluntary sector media campaigners; Public Voice is a not-for-profit coalition that seeks to work with Government, Parliament, Ofcom and other regulatory bodies as well as a range of civil society groups to establish the best way for communications to serve the needs to citizens.
Public Voice has a particular interest in the future of public service broadcasting, and helped shape relevant sections of the Communications Act 2003.
For more information, you can read our History.
If you would like to follow the debate or get involved in our work, you might like to check out our current projects, or join one of our mailing lists. Public Voice also runs an advisory group consisting of organisations with similar aims and interests to our own. If you would like more information about this, or would like to discuss joining on behalf of your organisation, please do email us.