From the monthly archives:

March 2007

The State of the South West?

by Clare 27/03/2007 in Bristol

According to a new report, the people of the South West live longer, enjoy the lowest rates of reported crime and unemployment, and give more of their time to social, civic or volunteer activities than the rest of England.
The region also has the fastest growing population in the country – driven entirely by people moving [...]

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Digital Neighbourhood Watch Launched in Henbury

by Stephen Hilton 23/03/2007 in Bristol

Safer Bristol has just announced a six-month pilot of an e-enabled neighbourhood alert scheme. Henbury neighbours and traders will trial Alert Boxes, which can be programmed with the owner’s name, address and telephone number. Each householder or trader then has the option of issuing a warning, by pressing an orange button – alerting [...]

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Judges’ Feedback on Connecting Bristol Bid

by Stephen Hilton 21/03/2007 in Bristol

Paul McGohan is a member of the DFES Transformational Government Team. He has been involved with the Digital Challenge at Government level since the start and sat on both judging panels. He was keen to provide our feedback, as he has been a “big fan of Connecting Bristol ever since our first presentation”.
These [...]

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WARNING: Some Idealist thoughts…..

by Shawn 19/03/2007 in Bristol

Congratulations to everyone in Bristol who worked together to produce & support this bid.  I say congratulations rather than commiserations as this experience is evidence that, with the right focus, the city’s stakeholders can pull together to conceptualise ‘joined-up-ness’, and it is this approach that we must not lose sight of as it has been a valuable journey for us all. 
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From the Momentum Meeting on 15 March

by Clare 15/03/2007 in Bristol

50 people gathered tonight at Watershed for a post digital challenge discussion. A result in itself…
Looking back over the past few weeks: the final presentation to government went very well but some of the questions provoked uncertainty as the agenda seemed to have moved away from inclusion to refocusing on the transformation of government services.
As [...]

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The Morning After the Announcement

by Stephen Hilton 14/03/2007 in Bristol

Yesterday Angela Smith MP kept us on our toes for as long as possible before announcing Sunderland City Council as winner of the Digital Challenge. Congratulations to the Sunderland team, they seem like a very nice lot. I look forward to working with them and with the other regional winners.
Of course, ‘we’ (the Connecting [...]

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May the Force be with Connecting Bristol

by Stephen Hilton 13/03/2007 in Bristol

“When you don’t have a charm with you, crossing your fingers averts bad luck”.
Many Bristol fingers and even a few toes will be crossed tomorrow because it is Digital Challenge final announcement day. Eight of us – Jane, Kevin, Dick, Clare, Makala, Barbara, Jaya and me will be heading to London in a minibus. [...]

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‘Funniest game of all time’ ends today

by Clare 09/03/2007 in Bristol

Today is the last day of MeiGeist, an Alternative Reality Game created by Bristol-based Licorice Film. Blending humour and short film with code-breaking and clues, 30,000 people around the world have taken part over the last 8 weeks and it has been referred to as ‘the funniest game of all time!” and “the ARG event [...]

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Banksy saved by hi-tech democracy

by Clare 08/03/2007 in Bristol

Yesterday’s Guardian Society pages feature an article on e-democracy in Bristol, using AskBristol’s surveys on this Banksy piece as an example of ‘hi-tech democracy’. Read the full article.
It also mentions the launch of neighbourhoodfixit.com, a project launched this week by MySociety and the Young Foundation which allows users to type in a UK [...]

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