Ofcomwatch is an informal group blog commenting on the processes and practices of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and related media and communications regulation issues both in the United Kingdom and around the world.

Ofcomwatch is an equal opportunities blog with no overarching agenda. All political leanings and viewpoints are welcome. So our mission is also yours if you choose to accept it.

Accordingly Ofcomwatch is open to all. Want to blog? E-mail for access – blog@ofcomwatch.co.uk

Ofcomwatch aims to provide an independent, informal, non-partisan, well written, easily readable, occasionally humorous online resource.

Ofcomwatch also aims, over time, to form a discursive current of opinion that results in new perspectives and progressive thinking in regard to media and communications regulation in the United Kingdom.

Ofcomwatch encourages a wide range of representatives and stakeholders to join and participate in its discussion – journalists, community media groups, media and (tele)communications professionals, consumer groups, academics, lobbyists, charities, civil servants, politicians, lawyers, regulators and anyone else with an interest.

Ofcomwatch hopes to be seen by the Office of Communications (Ofcom) as a positive online resource – bolstering the regulator’s own (and the legislative) demands for external accountability whilst embracing the essence of democratic grassroots/community media activism.

Luke Gibbs and Russ Taylor - Founders