• Press Gazette, Wednesday, December 18, 2013 2:56 PM

An independent auditor has identified serious weaknesses around a failed digital project which cost the BBC £100m. Conceived in Nov 2005 to “fully prepare the BBC for the on-demand digital world” the DMI initiative was initially given the go-ahead in December 2007 with a budget set at £81.7m. In February 2008 Siemens was awarded £79.8m to take the project on only for it to be taken in-house again in July 2009. Yesterday’s report found that in June 2012 a BBC review said that of 12 DMI “functions”, only one was in live use “but required a period of stabilisation”.

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