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Bristol BarCamp, first planning meeting is on 10th July

July 3, 2009 Posted by Kevin in : Bristol, Bristol City Council, Events, collaboration, Power of Information, Bristol Barcamp, Localgov camp , 2 comments

Local Goc Camp
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.   

Recent  BarCamps have focussed on Central and Local Government

We are now looking to organise a Bristol BarCamp and the first planning meeting will be held at i-Shed, The Bristol Pervasive Media Studio on 10th July from 4pm.

Personally, I want to see if we can have a Bristol BarCamp that brings together Councillors, Local Gov and Public Sector Managers, Social Web and Eco experts to come up with some green-digital-bristol-innovation but that’s just my thing…  it is an open planning meeting so come along and say what you want from Bristol BarCamp.

Confusingly, I am posting this from Kevin’s Wordpress account.  If anyone wants to email me to discuss then its stephen.hilton@bristol.gov.uk

Bristol Techno Footprint Green ICT - Workshop & Webinars

February 6, 2009 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Bristol City Council, Innovation, Technology, collaboration, Green ICT, Power of Information , 2 comments

We are pleased to invite you to help finalise the Techno Footprint project.

What is a Techno Footprint?
In partnership with The Carbon Trust, Connecting Bristol and Bristol City Council Sustainable City Team have been working with ESD Ltd. to develop a way of understanding and visualising how business-use of ICT adds to local carbon emissions. We refer to this as the city’s Techno Footprint.

The Solutions Database
As part of the project, we have also created the Green ICT Solutions Database, an easy to use resource to help inform action planning for Green ICT.

Your Input
We now need your help to refine and check these outputs before we launch them more widely.

Register
We are holding a workshop and two Webinars for Bristol stakeholders. A third Webinar is aimed at DC10plus members and national partners.

Please use the links below to register for either the Bristol Workshop or one of the Webinars

Links
REGISTER for the Bristol Workshop (central location)
4th March 9.30am – 1pm including lunch

*Webinar
REGISTER for the 11th March 2pm
REGISTER -12th March 10am

*Webinar for DC10plus and national partners
REGISTER -18th March 10am

*Each Webinar will last for up to 1 hour. To participate you need a telephone and a computer with Internet access.

Citizens Show Government a Better Way

November 11, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Innovation, Technology, Power of Information , add a comment

Show us a Better Way is part of the Government’s Power of Information Review.

Over the last few months, Show Us a better Way has encouraged citizens to suggest creative ideas about how public information might be shared and used more effectively.

The winners have just been announced…

Can I recycle it?

UK Cycling

Catchment Areas

Location of Postboxes (in rural and residential areas)

Loofinder

Funding and support will now be made available to develop these ideas into fully interactive websites.