Or, O Hai! Kultcha, as one commenter referred to it.
Anyway, on Thursday 17th November I attended Hello Culture at Zellig in the Custard Factory. It was billed as a day “to explore how the cultural sector can exploit digital technology, innovation, knowledge and skills” and I had a little speaking slot on a panel in the morning about social media and user generated content. More – Hello Culture
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.
Birmingham Photospace is a bunch of people volunteering their time because they want to establish a space for photography in the city. Earlier in the year they organised the Anything but Selfridges competition to find an image that “best represents the Birmingham we live and work in”. So long as it wasn’t of Selfridges.
On Saturday just gone they held their first public event, a Flashswap at the Vaad Gallery in the Custard Factory down in Digbeth. The premise of the event was that you brought some prints along that you were happy to swap and “hung” them in the gallery (there was Blu-Tak provided). In the early evening we went back and viewed the exhibition, then on the word we all went and placed a sticker against the prints that we wanted to take home with us. More – Flashswap event
Digital Birmingham is a Birmingham City Council initiative and part of a city wide strategic partnership of more than 40 public, private and voluntary organisations
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