As we reported in December, the Government will be charging a 50p per month ‘broadband tax’ on all fixed phone lines. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has launched a consultation into how the fund created by this tax should be used.
Contributions are being sought from any individual or organisation with an interest in [...]
How ‘open’ should local authorities be with the data they manage? It seems clear that in order to involve residents further in local decision making, and to improve accountability, there will need to be a move toward ‘openness’, but what does that really mean and how should it be achieved?
The Open Knowledge Foundation has been [...]
The Nintendo Wii video game console uses a unique control system which can detect movement in three dimensions. Accelerometers in the controller allow the users physical actions to be replicated by in-game characters. A Balance Board can also be added to the system allowing measurement and monitoring of users weight and centre of balance.
Health care [...]
A Facebook campaign to keep the X factor single off the Christmas number one spot has been successful. This year Rage against the Machine will be at the top of the festive chart with “Killing in the Name”. Within a matter of weeks the facebook group attracted almost a million members and raised over £60,000 [...]
Connecting Bristol is delighted to welcome you to our new look blog.
What have we done? We have restructured the way that information is organised to reflect the big ICT and Digital themes that we are working on, such as Green ICT and Connectivity. We have also included more ways for you to link with us, [...]
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has confirmed in his pre-Budget statement that all householders with a fixed phone line will be required to pay £6 per year as a Broadband Tax.
The money is to upgrade the exisiting telecommunications infrastructure so that super-fast broadband can be made available to 90 per cent of the population [...]
Oneplace is a new website that provides independent information on how public services are performing. It brings together the views of six independent inspectorates: the Audit Commission, Care Quality Commission, Ofsted, and Her Majesty’s Inspectorates of Constabulary, Prisons and Probation.
Public services can have a big impact on people’s lives – they do things like [...]
A truck carrying humanitarian aid, and postcards from students at the City Academy School, left Bristol on 4th December on the way to Gaza. The truck met up with a convoy of other vehicles which left London on 5th December, and should cross into Gaza on 27th December.
Viva Palestina, the organisation behind the enterprise, have [...]
The Royal Geographic Society (RGS) has highlighted some of the key issues likely to affect our lives and society in the coming years. The Digital Divide has been identified alongside issues ranging from climate change to migration, from energy resources to environmental hazards, from food production to water resources, and from the future of the [...]
