Bristol got a good plug in Tom Coates' Blog plasticbag.org. Writing from XTech conference and asking the question how American are start-ups? he cites Bristol as being in the top ten Computer Science departments in the UK and concludes Bristol as a location with great potential as a startup hub.
As part of Bristol’s work with the Local eDemocracy National Project, we have been working closely with an American organisation called eDemocracy.org who have been piloting and promoting Issues Forums in the UK.
Tim Erickson from eDemocracy.org was recently visiting the UK and came to Bristol last week to talk about the concept with the Knowle [...]
Wi Fi has been a hot topic in Connecting Bristol sparking debate about the pros and cons of top-down / corporate versus ground-up / community approaches to connectivity. The bid includes some of both.
I was therefore really interested to see Rudi Van Drunen's presentation on Wireless Leiden – "the Wireless capital of the [...]
Thanks to the Bristol Evening Post for all its coverage of the Connecting Bristol bid…. Vicki Mathias covered the day the Challenge bid went in with a really nice article.
In 2005, Tim Rylands, a teacher from Chew Valley School won a Becta (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) award for the best use of technology in the class. Tim uses the best-selling PC game series Myst, in the classroom to encourage children to problem solve, and think creatively and, according to him, the games [...]
Connecting Bristol is the city’s response to the Digital Challenge.
Momentum
At the heart of Bristol’s approach is the Momentum Group – a ‘movement’ and a stakeholder body uniting political leaders, council departments, creative industries, educationalists, health, police and fire, technology experts, academics and the public, private, voluntary and community sectors in a dialogue about the [...]