Projects

Bristol has been home to a range of successful and innovative digital inclusion projects. We have captured our experiences and some of the lessons learned here.

Digital Research & Development Fund for Arts and Culture

by Kevin 08/07/2011 in Projects

The Arts Council England, AHRC and NESTA have announced a new £500,000 fund for projects that will harness digital technologies to connect with wider audiences and explore new ways of working.

The aim is to encourage Arts and cultural organisations to work with those with digital expertise to help them understand the potential [...]

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Fix My Transport- a new mysociety project

by Kevin 24/06/2011 in Bristol

The team at MySociety have been making useful, elegant and  simple online tools to address real problems since 2003.  Theyworkforyou, fixmystreet and pledgebank are just some of the successful projects they have put together. Their next piece of work, FixMyTransport, is set to be released imminently and allows passengers to report issues on any public [...]

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Skunkworks for Government

by Kevin 12/04/2011 in Bristol

The term “Skunkworks” was first used as an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs. It has come to describe small, autonomous, groups within organisations who operate in a collaborative, non-bureaucratic environment to develop and deploy specific technical solutions rapidly.
The Cabinet Office is developing a Skunkworks for Central Government, and as budgets become increasing [...]

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Government Innovation Launch Pad

by Kevin 05/04/2011 in Bristol

The Cabinet Office has launched a new online tool, the Innovation Launch Pad, to enable small businesses to pitch their ideas on how they could do the business of government more cheaply or more efficiently.
The best ideas will be selected by a community of civil servants. The best entries will be provided with coaching and [...]

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Agile vs PRINCE in Local Government

by Kevin 29/03/2011 in Bristol

PRINCE has been established as the de facto project management technique in Government since it was developed in 1989 by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) as the  standard for information systems. PRINCE2, released in 1996, has since become increasingly popular, taking the methodology outside of the realms of strict IT projects establishing it [...]

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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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Connecting Bristol interviewed on BCfm about Computer Recycling

by Kevin 23/10/2010 in Bristol

Connecting Bristol were invited on to the BCfm radio afternoon show on Tuesday to talk about the Computer Recycling scheme the Council launched on 22 October;
BCFM – Connecting Bristol

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Bristol City Council launches 37 Wi-Fi hotspots and a Recycled Computer Scheme to help Residents get online

by Stephen Hilton 21/10/2010 in Bristol

37 free Wi-Fi hotspots are being launched by Bristol City Council tomorrow (22nd October) as part of its Connecting Bristol programme.
As well as libraries and council buildings, there will also be Wi-Fi hotspots in public areas such as St Nicholas Market and parts of Ashton Court  have also been Wi-Fi enabled, so residents can go [...]

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