From the monthly archives:

October 2006

South West Screen Innovation Event

by Clare 24/10/2006 in Bristol

South West Screen – the agency for the development of film, TV and digital media in the South West – is hosting a special event to showcase successful projects resulting from an exciting and innovative funding scheme.
Projects on display at the event – taking place at Bristol’s Watershed on Thursday 2 November from 4pm – [...]

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Easing Public Access to ICT Course: 15th December

by Kevin 24/10/2006 in Events

AbilityNet are running a one day course in Bristol on 15th December aimed at professionals offering ICT facilities to those with visual, physical or learning difficulties.
An information leaflet is available to download as a PDF from the AbilityNet website. For more information or to book a place contact the Course Administrator on 01926 312847 or [...]

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Campaign Creator Award Video

by Kevin 24/10/2006 in Bristol

Bristol City Council’s eInnovation project Campaign Creator has been shortlisted for a Eurocities award along with Birmingham and Reykjavik. As part of the shortlisting process BCC have produced a two minute video about the project and it’s impact. The video was produced by Bristol based new media company Delib.
You can also watch the video here.

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Mobile Bristol

by Clare 22/10/2006 in Projects

The Mobile Bristol Centre was part of the DTI’s City & Buildings Research Centre, and was founded by Hewlett Packard Laboratories, the University of Bristol and the Appliance Studio. Providing an experimental test-bed for technology and user value research in pervasive mobile media, the vision was to provide a digital canvas over the city onto [...]

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Knowle West Community Contribution No 2

by Roz 20/10/2006 in Bristol

Dialogue 2: Mandy Shute, Knowle West Neighbourhood Management: 10 October 2006
Mandy Shute from the Knowle West Neighbourhood Management team arrived for our meeting and we began to discuss the digital challenge bid. Mandy told me that there had been a scheme whereby Neighbourhood renewal had a fund which paid for residents to have computers at [...]

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IT Volunteering event

by Clare 18/10/2006 in Bristol

On Monday 13 November, Voscur and Connecting Bristol will be hosting a free Making The Best Use of Free ICT Support workshop at Watershed for organisations interested in using voluntary IT support and for businesses and professionals who are interested in volunteering. More information at http://www.connectingbristol.org/events

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ClearSpeed break Supercomputing records

by Clare 16/10/2006 in Bristol

Bristol based ClearSpeed Technology, a specialist company designing technology for high performance computing, today announced it had help to break supercomputing records at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
A supercomputer leads the world in terms of processing capacity and are used for calculation-intensive tasks such as weather forecasting, climate research and molecular modeling. Major [...]

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Wildscreen Festival starts today

by Clare 16/10/2006 in Bristol

Wildscreen Festival, the world’s largest, most prestigious and influential event for the wildlife and environmental filmmaking industry, takes place in Bristol this week.
The week-long Festival offers an extensive programme of screenings, debates, training workshops, technical trade show and networking opportunities. The week culminates with the Panda Awards Ceremony – the wildlife film industry’s equivalent [...]

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Virtual Pets to keep children fit

by Clare 16/10/2006 in Bristol

Bristol-based education innovator Futurelab have invented what it hopes could become a revolutionary toy which keeps children healthy as well as entertained. A Fizzee is like a watch in that it straps to a child’s wrist and inside it lives a small digital creature, or pet, which is powered by the child’s movement.

The more exercise [...]

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