The Digital Challenge was a 2007 government competition to identify a national showcase for ICT innovation. This site documents and supports Connecting Bristol, the city’s dynamic response. Bristol fended-off regional and national competition to win a place in the final top-ten. On 13th March Sunderland was announced the overall winner of the competition.

Connecting Bristol continues to work with the other finalists and with our partners to harnessing the energy and creativity of our city to extend opportunities through digital inclusion. This  group of Digital Challenge finalists has now been formally established as the DC10 plus network and aims to realise many of the shared goals outlined in the original DC10 bids. The network will also focus on creating collaborative and learning partnerships, exchanging good practice and developing new initiatives with other local authorities, central government, the third sector and industry to achieve our common Digital Inclusion goals.

Current Projects

• Digital Environment & Green ICT
• Next Generation Broadband Access
• Strengthening Community Capacity
• Flexible Working & Inclusion
• Digital Switchover
• Independent Living

Publishing Platform

This site uses the Wordpress publishing platform, a free blogging tool with a focus on web standards and usability. News stories, notes from meetings, research and bid drafts will be posted here, on which anyone can make a comment.

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