Posts Tagged ‘digital’

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

Launch 48

The aim of Launch48 is to bring together participants from different backgrounds and levels of experience in the web industry to think/plan/develop and launch one or multiple web apps in one weekend. It’s a frantic, energy fuelled, entrepreneurial event designed to engage all participants while offering the opportunity to learn and meet new people.

Launch 48 Birmingham will run between 12th and 14th of November 2010, at Birmingham Science Park Aston.

Launch48 Mini-Conference Birmingham runs from:

1 pm to 5 pm Friday the 12th of November, 2010

6 pm to 10 pm Friday the 12th of November, 2010
9 am to 9 pm Saturday the 13th of November, 2010
9 am to 9 pm Sunday the 14th of November, 2010

For more information, please click here.

6 October 2010 – Rich Mix, London E1

See IT in action demonstrates how councils and partners can use technology to transform the delivery of public services, improve outcomes, and help achieve more for less.

This is a free event, on Wednesday 6 October 2010, supported by Communities and Local Government, local authorities and civil society partners.

It is a must-attend day for all those who commission or manage local public services, who are looking to make their work more efficient, cheaper, and targeted at supporting those most in need. It is your opportunity to ensure you are ready, well informed and have the contacts necessary to meet the challenges facing those delivering today’s public services.

For more information and to register, please click here.

WHEN: FRIDAY 23RD JULY, 10am to 4pm
WHERE: VICTORIA SQUARE, BIRMINGHAM
WHAT: LAUNCH OF DIGITAL TIME CAPSULE

Digital Birmingham would like to invite you to come to the launch of Our Digital City – this is us in 2010, an online ‘digital snapshot’ of Birmingham in 2010 to be created by anyone with an interest in the city.

Digital Birmingham together with Say Hello, Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council are appealing to Birmingham residents, schools, businesses, families, organisations and individuals to help create an online DIGITAL TIME CAPSULE that will encapsulate memorably images, videos, recordings, and texts. The capsule won’t get buried and won’t need to be opened – but will be there for anyone to see, any time of day, from anywhere in the world with an online connection.

The Digital time capsule is being launched as part of this weekend’s Cultural Olympiad events and will be open for entries for the rest of the year. The target is to achieve 5000 entries by December 31st.

We’d like you to be one of the first to upload a moment of your choosing – and have a chance to chat to Michael Collie from Midlands Today to tell him about your memorable moment and what you’ve uploaded to www.ourdigitalcity.me.uk.

The whole team will be in Victoria Square from 10am to 4pm tomorrow and we’re looking forward to meeting you!

The dates for the Birmingham Open Weekend 2010, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, have been confirmed as 23 – 25 July 2010.

As part of Cultural Olympiad, Say Hello, Aston Pride, the BBC and Digital Birmingham will be on hand to showcase the Digital Time Capsule where you, the people of Birmingham, will be able to record and upload your memorable moment in the form of a video, an image and/or audio file etc.

Come and join the team in Victoria Square on Friday 23 July 2010 from 10am – 4pm and be a part of Birmimgham’s digital journey!

The Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery are monthly events held to help community and voluntary groups use the social web to benefit their organisations.

Digital Birmingham are pleased to announce that the next events are due to take place on:

7 July – at the Balsall Health Forum, The Tree Nursery, 82-89 St. Pauls Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham. B12 8LS  between 6.00pm and 7.30pm.

15 July -  at the Studio, 7 Cannon Street, off New Street, Birmingham. B2 5EP between 5.30pm and 7.00pm.

To sign up for either of these events, please click here.

Birmingham City University are hosting a one day digital participation seminar on 19th July.

It intends to provide a forum for discussion of the meaning and measurability of Digital Participation, focusing on the three main measurables promoted by the Digital Participation Consortium – Reach, Breadth, Depth.

It will include contributions from Ofcom, following publication of their initial statistics bulletin on digital participation. In addition it will hear about the role of the UK Research Council funded Digital Economy Hub at Newcastle University and from the Arts Council and Audiences Central on the experience they have in measuring participation in the arts. More – Measuring the Unmeasurable: Digital Participation Seminar

The Aston Community Festival 2010 is a free for all event taking place on Sunday 27 June 2010 at Aston Villa Football Club, Witton Lane, Birmingham. B6 from 12pm – 7pm.

The event will host live music, a fun fair, food, face painters and much more.

For more information, please click here.

The Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery are monthly events held to help community and voluntary groups use the social web to benefit their organisations.

The next event will be on Tuesday June 8 at the Studio, 7 Cannon Street, off New Street (B2 5EP).

Digital Birmingham supports these surgeries and have in the past provided advise and support with social media issues.

If you belong to a Birmingham-based community or neighbourhood group or charity please come and join us. You can drop in any time between 5.30pm and 7pm.

To sign up for the event or for further information, please click here.

The surgeries are organised by volunteer members of the Birmingham Bloggers group. Surgeons work as friendly advisors giving informal one-to-one help to show you how to make the best of social media.

You can find out what normally happens at a Social Media Surgery here.