DC10 Project Management Consultancy - Community Capacity
November 8, 2007 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Digital Challenge, Bristol, Community Media, Mentoring, jobs , add a commentBirmingham City Council, on behalf of the Digital Challenge Network, is offering a 12 months consultancy contract for a Project Manager. We are looking for an effective people connector with a firm standing in Community and Voluntary (CVS) work. You should be well organised and with an understanding of how IT can enhance service delivery. The project will identify successful networks and services in 6 Local Authorities: Birmingham, Bristol, Ealing, Norfolk, Shropshire and Sunderland which aim to increase the capacity to access and deliver services on a local level through networks of volunteers and organisations.
Information on the Digital Challenge can be found on www.digitalchallenge.gov.uk/dc10
The contract value is £42k plus £5k expenses. Submission deadline is 26/11/2007 12.00 noon. For an informal discussion contact Paul Nash on 01743 252020 or Heike Schuster-James on 0121 675 8887.
For details about this contract see the Consultant Brief, the Person Specification and the Project Outline.
*Updated* National Director of the Digital Challenge Network
July 18, 2007 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Digital Challenge, Bristol, Bristol City Council, jobs , add a commentNational Director, ‘DC10’ Digital Challenge Network
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual consultant to build up the profile and influence of the recently founded DC10 group, of which Connecting Bristol is an active member.
DC10 are a group of 10 Local Authorities aiming to embed digital inclusion in local and national mainstream thinking. DC10 emerged as a group after reaching the Digital Challenge final, which was run by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) with support from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR), the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Environmental and Health Sector.
Who Wants to be the Digital Challenge Director?
June 19, 2007 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Digital Challenge, Bristol, jobs , add a commentDIGITAL CHALLENGE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR - FIXED TERM (18 MONTH)
£46,887 - £50,742
37 Hours per week
Sunderland City Council is now looking for a Programme Director to manage and co-ordinate their winning Digital Challenge Programme. You will need to have experience of engaging and working in partnership with commercial partners and with local communities, communities of interest and thematic-based issue groups.
More here
Arnolfini, Watershed and the Cube Cinema connect for digital project
June 1, 2007 Posted by Sam in : Digital Challenge , add a commentBristol Wireless is involved in a project called XtreamLab along with Psand, Micro-Film and the Venn Festival.
There will be Live streams across the city of Bristol using the infrastructure of Bristol Wireless to send live high-quality video from the Arnolfini to the Cube (Friday 1st and Sunday 3rd) and from the Cube to the Croft (Saturday 2nd).
We have a nice new web site with information about it:
http://www.xtreamlab.net/live.html
This is all made possible with BW’s network and a temporary wireless link between the Arnolfini and Watershed.
Here’s a Google Map of what’s going on for reference:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&msa=0&msid=116091757328127903486.000001129f5e61af38d6e&om=1&ll=51.450263,-2.59758&spn=0.056057,0.187283&z=13
To watch or listen in, there’s a few options:
Video:
rtsp://live1.radiovague.com:554/venn.sdp is a Quick Time stream that may
work for you in VLC and definitely works using QT Player 7.
Audio:
http://live2.radiovague.com:8000/venn.mp3.m3u
Lastly if you frequent Second Life, you can teleport to Calamaro Planet
on the Isle of Prosperity - try this link:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isle%20of%20Prosperity/14/131/22
