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.

ePetition gathers support

by Kevin 11/10/2010 in Bristol

An online petition advocating the development of a Stadium in the City has topped 10,000 internet signatures. Once paper signatures have been factored in, the proposal has over 17,000 supporters. An opposing petition is also gathering support for an alternative proposal to grant Village/Town Green status to the Ashton Vale Fields area.
Bristol is a pioneer [...]

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B-Open Commissions Announced

by sarah 14/09/2010 in Bristol

Many thanks to all those who submitted a proposal for B-Open strand of  Media Sandbox 2010. We are delighted to announce the commissioned projects:
1. Overlay Media will develop a digital map to help people with restricted mobility, such as wheelchair users, older people and people with pushchairs, find the best and easiest route between two [...]

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Free Training session “Create You Own Community Web-Site Using Wordpress”

by Kevin 06/09/2010 in Bristol

Knowle West Media Centre are holding a series of workshops aimed at teaching the skills required to develop a community website using Wordpress. Wordpress is a quick and free way of creating a web-site. By the end of the session all attendees will have created their own basic site.
There will be three identical 2.5 [...]

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Open Data – Tough Decisions

by Stephen Hilton 28/07/2010 in Bristol

Today was the closing date for submissions to the Bristol B-Open competition and I am delighted to hear that we have had 11+ proposals for innovative open data projects from Bristol companies. The expert panel (and me) will be shortlisting over the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed we will be able to commission [...]

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Bristol ICT Refurbishment & Reuse Scheme Providers Day – 7th July

by Lorraine 23/06/2010 in Bristol

We are holding a Bristol ICT Refurbishment and Reuse Scheme Providers Day on July 7th from 9.30-11:30 at the Council House.  Register for your place  at http://ictrecycling.eventbrite.com/
We want to support the development of an independent and self-supporting Bristol ICT Refurbishment and Reuse Scheme which is able to operate citywide and will act as a framework for distributing our redundant [...]

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B-Open – Bristol Open Data Innovation

by sarah 07/06/2010 in Bristol

B-Open innovative data projects competition, part of Media Sandbox 2010, is now live.
B-Open is one of the digital city projects being developed by Connecting Bristol in support of the 20-20 City Strategy. Its about openly sharing council/city data and working with local digital businesses and communities to create new applications and services that bring added [...]

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Computer Drop-in Sessions at Knowle West Media Centre

by Stephen Hilton 20/04/2010 in Projects

In this video Martin describes what happens at the Computer drop-in sessions that Knowle West Media Centre holds every Wednesday between 10am and 3.30pm.  These sessions form part of the South Bristol Digital Neighbourhoods programme.
Martin says these sessions are  ‘informal, fun and free’ – so if you have an older parent or family member in [...]

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Open Government Data – some resources

by Stephen Hilton 24/03/2010 in Bristol

I have been reading around the subject of Innovative Open Data projects with a Government / Democracy link.
Here are some of the useful resources I have been sent (thank you Brrism and Petef) or stumbled across.  If you know of any other good articles or sources of info, please share.
Economist – Of Government and Geeks
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Bristol City Council – Discussion on new Website

by Stephen Hilton 09/03/2010 in Bristol

Started the day at Colston Hall (which has to be the best Bristol City Council meeting venue) for a gathering of 30-40 Bristol digital companies and organisations, kindly convened by Mike Bennet of Bristol Media, on behalf of Bristol City Council’s IT and Communications Teams.
The aim was to start a conversation about the Council’s plans [...]

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