Technology in Action: Bloody Sunday Inquiry Interview

April 14, 2011

In an interview prepared for a US TV show called ‘The Digital Age’, SCL President Richard Susskind has interviewed Lord Saville. The focus was on the use of IT in the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that he chaired. It is to be broadcast on a New York Channel (WYNE, Ch.25) on 17 April. The programme is entitled Can a Public Inquiry Work without Digital Technology? 

It is available now on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJL9L8rs3Rc

This is the only interview that Lord Saville has given since the completion of his Inquiry. In it, he explains the background to Bloody Sunday and discusses the various information technologies that were indispensable to the Inquiry.