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.

Global Working Opportunity: Graphics in Banagladesh, 1 February

by Kevin 16/01/2013 in Bristol

At the beginning of February, six experienced Graphics Design Services companies from Bangladesh will be visiting the UK. Their purpose is to meet potential new clients and business partners. They will be in Bristol 1st February, for 1:1 meetings based at Watershed in the morning and a presentation as part of Digital Bristol Week at the [...]

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Clare Reddington writes on what we can expect from our Future Cities

by Kevin 14/12/2012 in Bristol

Clare Reddington, Director of The Pervasive Media Studio, has written an article for the Huffington Post exploring the role of playfullness in the success of Cities.
This comes at an opportune time as the Watershed have just released the shortlist for their Playable City competition. You can get involved in determining which of the ten shortlisted [...]

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Bristol Partnership looking for company to redesign and redevelop website

by Kevin 24/10/2012 in Bristol

The Bristol Partnership are looking to refresh and update their website. They are looking for a company who can work with them to reflect the creativity and innovation of the City in the Partnership’s online presence. A short briefing document has been put together but there is plenty of scope for bright ideas and different [...]

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Get IT Together in Bristol’s First Year Success

by Marius 18/10/2012 in Bristol

Get IT Together in Bristol celebrated its first anniversary at the end of September 2012.  It is part of the UK wide Get IT Together programme which has multiple projects in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  The Bristol project is a partnership between Bristol City Council’s digital agency Connecting Bristol, Citizens Online and BT.  [...]

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A look at the work of Bristol City Council’s Digital Inclusion Co-ordinator

by Marius 15/10/2012 in Bristol

Marius Jennings works within the Connecting Bristol team as our digital inclusion co-ordinator.
He develops and delivers the Get IT Together in Bristol project to help people previously unable to use IT get the confidence and skills to use computers and the internet. He has just completed year one of a three-year secondment from the Citizens Online [...]

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Upto £5000 of Innovation Vouchers available from Technology Strategy Board

by Kevin 05/10/2012 in Bristol

The Technology Strategy Board’s national Innovation Voucher scheme enables your business to obtain help from a range of expert suppliers – universities, further education colleges, research & technology organisations, technical consultancies and Catapult centres, design advisers and intellectual property advisers.
You can use an innovation voucher to get advice on an innovative idea, [...]

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Market Engagement day for Council ICT opportunities in Infrastructure and Web Technology, 25 October

by Kevin 03/10/2012 in Bristol

Bristol City Council is organising a market engagement session in respect of it’s ICT requirements for Infrastructure and Web Technology contracts.
The event will be held on 25 October 2012, between 09.30 – 16.30pm at Colston Hall, Bristol.
The event will set out in detail some of the forthcoming Council contracts in ICT, but will also include [...]

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iNets Funding Competition for South West based Microelectronics SME’s launches

by Kevin 28/09/2012 in Bristol

The Microelectronics iNet has launched an innovation competition for South West based businesses. The competition is open to SMEs in all industry sectors and will unlock up to £5,000 support to enable external expertise to allow businesses to innovate, develop and grow.
The core themes for this iNet are;

Microelectronics
Digital Communications
Photonics

and projects in the following areas are [...]

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Follow up from ICT Business Awareness day on the 4th of September

by Kevin 07/09/2012 in Bristol

“Thank you to all that attended our ICT Business Awareness day on the 4th of September. As promised we have started our online community. Having listened to comments on the day, there were a number of suggestions made on using Linkedin Groups, so that’s what we have done.
The Group can be found on Linkedin under [...]

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