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January 2011

Supporting local sourcing: meet the buyer event. Register your interest now

by Kevin 31/01/2011 in Bristol

Would your business like to buy more of its good or services locally? Don’t know who to approach locally? Help is at hand….
Bristol City Council is supporting Best of Bristol and the Federation of Small Businesses in organising a ‘Meet the Buyer’ event in June.
The idea behind this event is to support local sourcing. There [...]

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Live Webcast: Local by Social Event, Fri 28th Jan from 10am

by Kevin 27/01/2011 in Bristol

Connecting Bristol are hosting this event in the Council House to explore how Apps and Widgets can be used to bring real benefits to citizens, broadening social and economic inclusion and helping the whole community benefit from the power of open data.
Loading…Webcast Available Here : http://www.bristol.public-i.tv/site/player/index.php?a=52367

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Machine Vision Lab at U.W.E.

by Kevin 26/01/2011 in Bristol

I went to visit the Machine Vision Lab team at University of the West of England yesterday. The immediate thing that struck me was how similar the place looked and felt to the ‘Q’ branch labs seen in James Bond films- right down to the camouflage netting and dressed up tailors dummies around the place.  [...]

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Clean Slate Training & Employment in Lawrence Weston

by Kevin 26/01/2011 in Bristol

Clean Slate Training & Employment is a social enterprise creating and supporting paid work for people from groups that face barriers to employment. They work with homeless people, refugees, long-term unemployed people, those with mental health problems, disabilities or other histories that may cause employers to think twice. It was founded [...]

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Digital community invited to pledge support for Bristol Green Capital

by Kevin 24/01/2011 in Bristol

Bristol Green Capital is a growing community of over 120 organisations in the city committed to accelerating the pace of change towards a low carbon future. It is inviting organisations across the City to make a Pledge to help make Bristol a green capital – a low carbon city with a high quality of life.
Bristols [...]

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Jimmy Wales: Live Webcast

by Kevin 13/01/2011 in Bristol

We are live streaming Jimmy Wales’ presentation from Bristol on Wikipedia’s development and future plans.

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First Recycled Computers Distributed

by Kevin 13/01/2011 in Bristol

On Tuesday Margaret Webber from Hartcliffe became the first person in the city to receive a recycled computer under Bristol’s Computer Reuse Scheme.
The scheme aims to provide hundreds of low cost refurbished and reconditioned computers to residents who couldn’t otherwise afford to buy one. The scheme has been very popular, with almost 350 people signing [...]

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Jimmy Wales speech in Bristol to be live webcast

by Kevin 05/01/2011 in Bristol

Jimmy Wales – founder of Wikipedia – makes his first visit to Bristol on 13 January 2011 to talk about Wikipedia’s development and future plans.
The visit will culminate with a speech at the University of Bristol.  Seats for the speech were fully booked very quickly, so in order to bring the speech to a wider audience, [...]

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FREE EVENT, Apps for Communities, 28th + 29th Jan at the Bristol Council House

by Stephen Hilton 04/01/2011 in Events

“Apps for Communities” is a free event co-hosted by Local by Social and Bristol City Council‘s Connecting Bristol team.
It will take place on 28th and 29th January 2011 at the Council House, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TR.
The event will explore how Apps and Widgets can be used to bring benefits to citizens, broadening social [...]

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