Connecting Bristol is delighted that Martha Lane Fox, Digital Inclusion Champion and co-founder of LastMinute.com, will be visiting Bristol on Friday to find out more about the city’s work on Digital Inclusion and to help formulate ideas for the Government’s new Digital Inclusion Task Force, which Martha Chairs.
Twitter was instrumental in arranging the visit – [...]
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Fancy popping down to Victoria in London to visit the Google offices?
Oh, and get to hear from the real experts about how to make the most of Google services, whether search, analytics, maps, advertising, widgetising content, and more?
For the [...]
On the eve of Lord Carter’s final Digital Britain Report our latest city data shows that Bristol’s residents are ready and waiting… 3 in every 4 are already regular Internet users who have used the Web in the last week.
Residents are most likely to access the Web at Home (76% in the last 6 months), [...]
We have created some new web pages to start to share our work on Green ICT here
On March 12, 2009, the European Commission adopted a Communication on mobilising Information and Communication Technologies to facilitate the transition to an energy-efficient, low-carbon economy.
Over the last year, we have been developing and piloting a methodology for [...]
South Bristol Digital Neighbourhoods have been working with Bristol City Council to provide local residents with ICT training, giving people confidence in using the internet and showing them how they can use the council’s consultation site www.askbristol.com. This website allows citizens to influence local decisions, and is part of an EU e-participation project called Citizenscape.
For [...]
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David Bishop (Strategic Director of City Development – Bristol City Council), Clare Reddington (Pervasive Media Studio), Stephen Hilton (Connecting Bristol), Council Leader Barbara Janke, Brian Condon (Community Broadband Network.)
We are pleased to invite you to help finalise the Techno Footprint project.
What is a Techno Footprint?
In partnership with The Carbon Trust, Connecting Bristol and Bristol City Council Sustainable City Team have been working with ESD Ltd. to develop a way of understanding and visualising how business-use of ICT adds to local carbon emissions. [...]
I am Stephen Hewitt, Bristol City Council’s Slivers-of-Time Co-ordinator.
As you may know ‘Slivers-of-Time‘ is a Government backed initiative to help tackle worklessness, improve local services and develop skills. Slivers-of-Time IT already operates in a number of places – East London, Hammersmith and Fulham, Leeds and Liverpool.
Since the introduction of the Local Government Act in 2000 districts across England and Wales have had the option of directly electing their Mayor. Whilst traditional Mayorships have been largely ceremonial positions, Elected Mayors assume a far more active political role, with powers similar to those of the Councils executive committee.
A few of the early [...]