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5000+ Watch Bristol’s Live Council Webcast

by Kevin 09/11/2009 in People

The Bristol City Council (November 4) meeting to decide the stadium application received the most viewers in the history of UK council webcasting. 5,624 people witnessed the debate live and online. Not only would this crowd fill 25 council chambers. It would also leave very few seats at Bristol City’s famous Dolman stand.  View the [...]

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BBC Bristol Anchor Collaboration

by Matt 01/11/2009 in Bristol

Bristol-BBC-Anchor is a new collaboration between the BBC, Bristol City Council, South West RDA, South West Screen and an alliance of creative industries, community organisations and academic institutions including Bristol Media, the University of Bristol, UWE and Futurelab.
Bristol has a reputation for creation of world-class content, most notably from the award-winning BBC Natural History Unit, [...]

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Bristol Green ICT Champion – Ethical IT

by Matt 25/10/2009 in Green ICT

Ethical IT is part of The Ethical Property Company who buy properties and develop them as centres that bring charities, social enterprises, community and campaign groups together to share skills and ideas. Ethical IT specialises in the communication requirements and system issues of the social change sector, and provides tailored, cost-effective solutions.
Key Green ICT successes [...]

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Bristol Green ICT Champion – University of Bristol

by Matt 24/10/2009 in Green ICT

The University of Bristol is ranked as one of the top 10 universities in the UK, and although one of the oldest institutions, it is riding the crest of the digital wave and becoming a Green ICT Champion.
One of the key aims of the University’s IT Strategy is the Environment: to develop sustainable approaches to [...]

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The ‘E-solated’

by Matt 20/10/2009 in Connectivity

There are 10 million people in the UK still without an internet connection. This one-in-six population are increasingly excluded from the opportunities and conversations of the world. The statistics speak for themselves – shopping and paying bills through the internet make “average savings of £560 a year” and unemployed people who learn [...]

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Martha Lane Fox promotes digital inclusion economic benefits

by Kevin 19/10/2009 in Bristol

Britain’s Digital Inclusion Champion, Martha Lane Fox has been seen widely in the press this week highlighting the importance of internet access and skills, particularly to the Country’s poorest households . The BBC website has video of an interview conducted with HardTalk, and she has also spoken to the Today programme on Radio 4, the [...]

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Seeing your Carbon Footprint

by Kevin 13/10/2009 in Green ICT

Have you ever wonder what your carbon footprint actually looks like? Measuring green house gas emissions gives an accurate, but abstract, calculation of the quantity of CO2 released into the atmosphere but it can be difficult to visualise precisely what this means.

The Carbon Quilt is an online application that translates these calculations into a visual [...]

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South Bristol prepares for National Get Online Day – 23rd October 2009

by Stephen Hilton 12/10/2009 in Bristol

The Knowle West Media Centre is a UK Online centre and as part of the national Get Online Week KWMC is holding a Get Online Day on Friday the 23rd of October.
The all day event will feature:

Prizes for the oldest person participating and for the best story about how getting on line has helped
Open training [...]

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Barbara Janke and Martha Lane Fox talk about Bristol the Digital City

by Stephen Hilton 25/08/2009 in Bristol

Bristol City Council’s Leader Barbara Janke and Martha Lane Fox, Champion for the Governments Digital Inclusion Task Force, discussing the potential impact of Digital Inclusion across the City.

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