Ted Ridgway Watt said he hoped to substantially expand digital services through on-island expertise.

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The organisation is an independent body representing and promoting the island's digital industries.

BBC: Ted Ridgway Watt

"When we moved here, there wasn't a local supermarket or a drugstore, " said Elias Roman, co-founder and chief executive of Songza, a digital music business based in Long Island City since 2007.

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There will be more digital marketing of Guernsey in 2012, according to the island's director of tourism.

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The Cablevision-owned Long Island paper has the fourth-largest paid digital circulation of any U.S. paper, according to ABC.

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Timothy Loew, the executive director of the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI), sees a silver lining in the clouds over Rhode Island.

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