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November 2010

FREE EVENT: The Digital Challenge is Over – The Digital Opportunity is Here (Open Meeting)

by Stephen Hilton 25/11/2010 in Bristol

The Digital Challenge is Over – The Digital Opportunity is Here (Open Meeting)
13th December, 2010
2.00 – 4.30pm (followed by drinks)
Watershed
#digifuturesbris
The Government’s 2007 Digital Challenge is over but ‘Digital’ has more to offer Bristol than ever before. Bristol City Council, Watershed, Knowle West Media Centre and Nameless therefore invite you to an open meeting through [...]

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Martha Lane Fox urges Government towards Digital Revolution

by Kevin 23/11/2010 in Bristol

In her role as Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox has called for Government to take radical and revolutionary steps to ensure that it becomes easier to access government services and make payments over the internet.
In a report to Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maud she highlighted the inefficient and bureaucratic nature of many DirectGov services, and [...]

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FREE EVENT: Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, Talks in Bristol

by Stephen Hilton 18/11/2010 in Bristol

Wikipedia at 10:
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikimedia talks in Bristol about its development and future plans
13 January 2011 12.00-13.00 – Victoria Rooms, University of Bristol
#wp10
In association with Bristol Festival of Ideas, Connecting Bristol, Bristol City Council, BBC Anchor Trust and Wikimedia UK: a special event to mark 10 years of Wikipedia with the [...]

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EVENT: Google’s Big Business Breakfast

by Kevin 18/11/2010 in Bristol

Google is offering small businesses in Bristol the chance to create their own website at a breakfast event tomorrow (Friday 19 November).
As many as 1.5 million businesses in the UK do not have a website. Many businesses are not yet online because they see it as too costly, too complicated or not necessary, [...]

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Guest Blog from Sean Kenny of Voscur

by Kevin 18/11/2010 in Bristol

I’ve been working with Voscur members over the last year to help them to look at how they use IT and how they can plan future use to maximise their effectiveness without spending huge amounts of money or wasting resources by developing Green ICT strategies for their organisations.
In 2009 I asked [...]

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Get involved in fixing the web.

by Kevin 18/11/2010 in People

Surfing the web can be a great experience but often obstacles are put in the way of millions of disabled people. They are being excluded by unfriendly navigation and other poor user experience issues.  Fix The Web is a platform for making the web a better place for all of us by making [...]

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Huge interest in Recycled Computer Scheme

by Kevin 12/11/2010 in Bristol

It’s only been three weeks since we launched our low cost recycled computers scheme and we already have almost 200 applications on our system. We are working hard with our partners Redemtech and Byteback to prepare the PC’s for use and hope to have the first batch available for collection in the next couple of [...]

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It’s World Usability Day today

by Kevin 11/11/2010 in Bristol

World Usability Day (WUD) was founded in 2005 by The Usability Professionals’ Association. It was established to highlight the importance of making the goods and services we use easier to access and more straightforward to operate. When it comes to technology, usability has a particularly important role to play. Unseasoned or nervous users can be [...]

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Flickr Data Maps of Bristol

by Kevin 10/11/2010 in Bristol

Photographer Eric Fisher has been using the data that sits behind photographs uploaded to Flickr to generate activity maps for major cities across the World. In many cases when a photograph is taken and uploaded to the web a set of other data is also captured, including location and a date-time stamp. Combining these data [...]

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