Connecting Bristol is delighted that Martha Lane Fox, Digital Inclusion Champion and co-founder of LastMinute.com, will be visiting Bristol on Friday to find out more about the city’s work on Digital Inclusion and to help formulate ideas for the Government’s new Digital Inclusion Task Force, which Martha Chairs.
Twitter was instrumental in arranging the visit – [...]
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Bristol City Council today welcomed BT news that super-fast broadband is to be rolled-out to around 24,000 homes and businesses in and around Bristol.
Three BT exchanges in the city – covering Downend, North Bristol and West Bristol – are among the latest UK locations due to be upgraded next year with super-fast broadband [...]
People who end up working in Digital Inclusion often start off somewhere completely different. Connecting Bristol knows of influential digital inclusion practitioners who have studied politics, web usability, archeology and even Fine Art! Many get involved in Digital Inclusion because it is something they feel passionately about, rather than as a result of [...]
BRISTOL’S organic multi-award-winning supermarket, The Better Food Company, is launching a free online Better Health Campaign in July.
The St Werburghs-based supermarket will offer experts’ nutritional tips and recipes, yoga exercises, relaxation techniques and supplement advice to help people get fit for winter.
As well as the online campaign there will be tie-in health offers [...]
What is a BarCamp? Well, according to Wikipedia
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants
There has been at least one previous BarCamp in Bristol but recently Central and Local Government have also discovered Barcamp.
We are now looking to organise a Bristol BarCamp and the [...]
Thanks to Dave Briggs for spotting this…
Do you work in local government?
Are you free on 7th August?
Fancy popping down to Victoria in London to visit the Google offices?
Oh, and get to hear from the real experts about how to make the most of Google services, whether search, analytics, maps, advertising, widgetising content, and more?
For the [...]