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How technologically enabled are your neighbours?

August 21, 2006 Posted by Clare in : e-society , add a comment

By entering a postcode in the e-Society profiler you can find out about the type of technology use in your neighbourhood and those areas with similar profiles within Great Britain. My neighbourhood (Totterdown) was categorised in the E-Society classification as being in group B : E-marginalised and type B08 : Mobile Explorers. You can also submit your own data if you disagree with the profile.

This project has been developed by the Spatial Literacy team at UCL as an outcome of an earlier ESRC funded e-Society project.


Local news coverage

August 7, 2006 Posted by carolhayward in : Digital Challenge, Bristol, Media , 2 comments

BBC Points West filmed a small news item on Friday about our digital challenge bid. It’s intended to be broadcast on Wednesday or Thursday evening (9th or 10th August) this week so keep an eye out for it.

They didn’t give us much notice but luckily we were able to set something up with young people at the Knowle West Media Centre, and with some older people at a sheltered housing scheme in Easton who had been ‘connected’ by Bristol Wireless.

Thanks to those who helped set this up so quickly.

Next steps for our bid

August 2, 2006 Posted by carolhayward in : Digital Challenge, Bristol , add a comment

Four of us attended a digital challenge workshop in London a couple of weeks ago where we heard more about the expectations of the digital challenge team and some practical points about how we move forward in this next stage. The first thing to note is that the deadline for our final bid has now been moved back to the 19th January and that the judging is expected to take place in February.

The judging criteria will be the same as in the last round, ie: social inclusion; innovation and transformation; economic, social and environmental; tangible benefits; partnerships and the potential to be a UK exemplar. Transformation of public services was said to be critical.

The format of our bid will need to include a refined explanation (including social inclusion); detail of how the benefits will be realised; detail of implementation (and service transformation); skills audit and capacity check; budget; approach to risk management and risk register; detailed explanation of partnership - governance and operations.

We will also need to incorporate the environmental impact; technology architecture diagram; story boards of user journeys; details of how we will be an exemplar; summary of evolution of bid including reasons why there are any changes; summary of the vision and details of how the £120k has been spent.

Bids should be no longer than 10,000 words and can include videos etc. All the outputs from the workshop (powerpoint and two briefing notes) are available on the connecting bristol website

There are still aspects that are being resolved - particularly how the industry contributions will be realised which still seems a little vague at present. Hopefully we will have more feedback on this by the time of the next momentum group meeting which is scheduled to take place at 4pm on Wednesday 13th September at the Watershed. This will be our first chance to start planning the content of our bid so hope to see you there.