Archive for November, 2010

Placing the User at the Centre

Digital Birmingham are taking part in an EU funded Project Net-Eucen which is aiming to place the User at the centre of design and innovation.  We are interested in hearing from people who have some knowledge of User Centric Innovation or Design from different backgrounds.  Ideally from, academia, the public sector, private sector, volunteers who will assist us in shaping the future of a social issue or problem. More – User Centric Innovation

Invitation to Next Generation Business Event  – Connected Companies Make Money
Date: Monday 22 November, 2010
Time: 9.30 – 13.30 – FREE to attend with lunch included
Venue: International Convention Centre, Hall 4

Technology is developing rapidly. Nearly half of our waking hours are spent using media and communications. Broadband is the fourth utility and users’ bandwidth demand grows by 50% each year (Nielsen’s

Law).  61% of 15-24 year-olds use social networking…

What is your company doing about this?

If you are a business in Birmingham or the West Midlands conurbation already using email, web sites and the internet and want to find out more about the Government’s approach to Next Generation Access and what this means to your business, then come along to this free morning session and find out how you can:

1) Make better use of technology
2) Obtain the business advantage of fast access
3) Access a global market place
4) Afford the faster connections to enable you to be competitive in a digital age

This event is sponsored by Digital Birmingham, Birmingham & Black Country City Region, Business Birmingham, who are concerned about the area’s digital infrastructure (Digital Districts) and the take-up of broadband by businesses.  They are convinced that future business growth will exploit technology and require increasing speed of connection.

To look at the programme and book online, please click here.

The worldwide audience for Birmingham’s Hello Digital week has affirmed it as a huge success and a reinforcement of Birmingham’s place on the world digital stage.

In a week which saw Birmingham recognised as one of the world’s ‘Smart21’ intelligent cities by the internationally-renowned Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), Hello Digital gave visitors from the public and private sector a small taste of what is possible with the smart application of digital technologies.

Hello Digital’s three main events – Beyond 2010, Hello Business and the Eurocities KSF Autumn conference – drew over 900 delegates to the International Convention Centre and the Custard Factory in Digbeth to hear keynote speakers including Ian Watmore, the Cabinet Office’s chief operating officer; Alex Hunter, ex-Virgin Media global head of online content; Neelie Kroes, the EU’s vice president and digital agenda commissioner; and

Robert Bell, co-founder of the ICF.

To read the full press release, please click here.