Posts Tagged ‘2010’

SOS – Hackers urgently needed for trans-global ‘Hackathon’ – Birmingham in collaboration with Edmonton (Canada) and Seoul (Korea)!!

When? Wednesday 20th October 2010 – 14:00 to Thursday 21st October 14:00.  We know this announcement comes at short notice but you don’t get notice in a real emergency!

Where? Birmingham Science Park Aston Faraday Wharf, Holt Street. 

What will our hackathon be like?  It will be slightly different from most hackathons. As we work on our project, we will be sharing what we’re working on with Edmonton [Canada] and Seoul [Korea] as we ‘follow the sun’. 

We’re going to spend 24 hours trying to create the blueprint for an app design that can be used in cities all over the world. This will be an application that will help families prepare during a disaster and will list emergency muster points, emergency info, alerts during disasters, and what to do. It will cater for different scenarios: although floods or a Buncefield type explosion are both emergency situations, you don’t handle them the same way. The aim of this app  is to keep people safe, and we hope to come up with a guideline for how it should look – so that app designers around the world can pick up the guideline and run with it.

For more information and to book a place, please click here. 

20 – 21st October 2010
The International Convention Centre, Birmingham
www.beyond-2010.com

The need for public service providers to deliver ‘more for less’ has never been greater.

Digital technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to radically re-shape and transform the way public services are delivered.

Beyond 2010 is a major two day international conference bringing together the digital and mobile technologies that are already transforming the delivery of public services around the world and the people who are making it happen to give you real life examples of best practice. It provides the chance to benchmark your progress and tap into a network of joined up digital thinking that will help you find effective solutions to the challenge of delivering more efficient and sustainable public services for less that will also be critical in driving economic growth.

Please click here to view the event programme.

For more information visit www.beyond-2010.com

As an avid magazine reader, I subscribe to one of the most popular women’s magazines in the country, Cosmopolitan.  From month to month there are (in my opinion) always interesting articles about the three main subjects the magazine focuses on love, life and fashion. 

However, this month’s edition had a report that really got my interest, as the focus appeared to be….technology!

More – The next decade…….

As we nudge closer to 2010, here is a look back at some of the digital highlights from our 2009 work programme that we have been involved in with our partners and colleagues across the city. We look forward to a successful 2010 – Happy New Year.
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