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Study while you work for a MSc or Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Inclusion

by Stephen Hilton 08/07/2009 in Bristol

People who end up working in Digital Inclusion often start off somewhere completely different.  Connecting Bristol knows of influential digital inclusion practitioners who have studied politics, web usability, archeology and even Fine Art!  Many get involved in Digital Inclusion because it is something they feel passionately about, rather than as a result of [...]

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£250m underspend available to the broadband industry?

by Bryn 27/04/2009 in Connectivity

The broadband industry will be able to use the estimated £250 million underspend in the BBC’s digital switchover fund to bring internet access to everyone in the U.K by 2012, under plans unveiled by the chancellor in last weeks budget.
“It is vital to ensure the entire country and economy benefits from the digital [...]

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New Environmental Website Launched

by Kevin 27/10/2008 in Bristol

A new website that has just been launched for the Bristol area.
ecojam.org, a new one-stop website for Bristol’s growing green and ethical scene, is taking a fresh approach to local environmentalism. Launched by researchers at the University of Bristol, it’s a place for you to discover local businesses and initiatives, search for ethical jobs, trade [...]

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Green ICT in Practice

by Stephen Hilton 03/09/2008 in Bristol

Gary Hird, graduate of the Cranfield IT Leadership Programme and a member of the IT Leadership Forum has just written a book on Green IT in Practice
it is available from Amazon
All author royalties are being donated to charity: 50% to an environmental charity called Global Action Plan, and 50% to the charity Myositis Support [...]

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Start Up Successes in Bristol

by Kevin 29/08/2008 in Bristol

John Bradford recently posted an entry on TechCrunch UK highlighting and celebrating the range and vibrancy of new technology businesses emerging across the city.
You can read John’s full post here

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What is a Carrot Mob?

by Kevin 16/07/2008 in Bristol

Campaigning, technology and the environment have been interests of ours at Connecting Bristol for quite some time, and I think one of the things that we have recognised is the power of using the technology to mount a positive campaign; promoting an appealing alternative can often have better results than simply railing against an existing [...]

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Green ICT Resource

by Kevin 28/04/2008 in Green ICT

Its easy to assume that ICT is one of the “good guys” when it comes to climate change. It makes business processes more efficent, has the potential to reduce the amount of paper we use, and enables flexible working and video conference which cuts down on the CO2 emissions associated with travel.
However Socitim recently reported [...]

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Green mapping

by Kevin 15/04/2008 in Bristol

Green maps show sites of environmental significance such as green goods and services, areas of open space, toxic hot-spots etc. They make use of a broadly recognised set of map icons called the Green Map System developed in New York in the 1990s. Green mapping has the potential to facilitate the spread of innovative greening [...]

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What do you want from researchers?

by stephencoleman 04/04/2008 in Bristol

I am an academic researcher. (So we are urged to admit at Academics’ Anonymous meetings.) Academics are accused of being in ivory towers; of not understanding the real world in which practitioners operate; of indulging in all sorts of abstruse theory. And sometimes these accusations are at least partly justified. But what do e-democracy practitioners [...]

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