From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Environment Agency Online Flood Mapping

by Kevin 27/05/2010 in Bristol

With the sun shining all across Bristol flooding probably isn’t an issue that many people are particularly concerning themselves with at the moment. However, Bristol does though have several areas that are flood-prone, including areas around the Severn Estuary, the Bristol Frome, the (lower) Avon, and the city docks.
The Environment Agency are the body responsible [...]

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Event:Telehealth & Telecare Exhibition & Marketplace, 28th June, Vassall Centre, Bristol

by Kevin 26/05/2010 in Bristol

Tele-Health, Tele-Care and Assistive Technologies hold massive potential to help people take greater control of their own health and to live independent lives.  But as with any innovation, there is a need to overcome fears and to build understanding both within organisations and amongst potential service users.
This is why Connecting Bristol has teamed-up with NHS [...]

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Silver Surfers Day: 21 May 2010

by Kevin 21/05/2010 in Bristol

Silver Surfers’ Day is a nationwide campaign to encourage older people to get online by experiencing how they can benefit by doing so.
The scheme is coordinated by Digital Unite and it is expected that at least 1,500 Silver Surfers’ Day events will take place. These will range from informal sessions for ‘family and friends’ groups, [...]

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Radio Amnesty: Upgrade your “wireless” to DAB

by Kevin 20/05/2010 in Bristol

The radio industry are running a radio ’scrappage’ scheme to encourage listeners to replace their analogue radios with new digital radios. Listeners can take their old analogue radio to any of the participating retailers, including Argos, Comet, John Lewis and Tesco, where they will be offered a discount of 10-20% on a new digital [...]

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Bristol nominated for 2 National eWellbeing Awards

by Stephen Hilton 18/05/2010 in Green ICT

Connecting Bristol is delighted to learn that both we and Knowle West Media Centre are finalists in this year’s SustainIT eWellbeing Awards.
Bristol’s work on Green ICT has been shortlisted for this prestigious national award in the category of Energy Efficiency.  Knowle West Media Centre’s Carbon Makeover Project has been shortlisted in the category of [...]

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Printing in three dimensions: making the digital real

by Kevin 17/05/2010 in Bristol

3D printing has been in use for more than five years. Early machines were used for rapid prototyping in manufacturing and cost tens of thousands of pounds. Effectively the process translates a computer based 3D digital design into a real world object by building up layers of material on top of one another. Various polymers [...]

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Youtube introduce auto-generated video captioning

by Kevin 14/05/2010 in Bristol

Video captioning can greatly increase the accessibility and usability of online videos. Hearing impaired users can get access to the audio content, and foreign language speakers can have the speech presented automatically as subtitles translated into their own language.
Youtube have recently launched a process whereby captioning can be added to videos on the site automatically, [...]

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Bristol Welcomes Wikimedia

by Stephen Hilton 12/05/2010 in Events

This weekend delegates from the Wikimedia Foundation’s office in San Francisco and from “Chapters” around the world will arrive in Bristol for a three-day summit to discuss fund raising and other strategic issues.
It is the first time that Wikimedia UK, the Chapter responsible for supporting the work and goals of the Wikimedia projects in the [...]

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WeGov: Where eGovernment meets the eSociety

by Kevin 11/05/2010 in Bristol

Rory Cellan-Jones has recently asked whether Thursday’s election was the first internet election? I think we can say pretty confidently that all future elections will be fought just as vigorously in cyberspace as they are on the high street.
WeGov is a European Commission funded project which is exploring ways to use established social networking [...]

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