Safer Internet Day is organised by INSAFE in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. Each year hundreds of events are organised to raise awareness about online safety issues.
For more information about SID, how to get involved and set up your own event, please click here.
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.
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
France & Germany line up to bash Internet Explorer
Here’s a link to the article that might be of interest to you!
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!
It has been recently reported that one in three teenagers are suffering bullying by mobile phone, text messages, messenger or on the Internet. Tuesday saw the launch of a team of online Cyber Mentors to help teenage victims of bullying and they were deluged with calls for help with hundreds of victims and friends of victims logging on to chat to one of the 700 specially trained teenagers about their problems.
More – Teenagers Tackle Cyberbullies
Deputy Leader, Cllr Tilsley and Annette King, Digital Birmingham Innovations Manager put the Wii to the test
Kids who spend ages on computer games can develop a nasty palm rash, doctors have found. The condition has been dubbed PlayStation palmar hidradenitis by medics, who blame hours spent gripping consoles allied to sweaty palms. Other medics report a tendon condition called Wii-itis among Wii players. More – Gamers at risk from ‘Playstation rash’
There does not seem to be anything that has not been affected by the adverse weather conditions over the past few weeks. Whether it be the travel network, education system or technology infrastructure….pardon? Technology can be affected by a bit of snow? Okay, it may be more than a bit but surely in the 21st Century there are contingencies in place to enable everything to continue to run smoothly…….
More – Snow and technology doesn’t mix?
Ed Gibson, Chief Cyber Security Adviser at Microsoft
Next Tuesday is International Safer Internet Day, which provides a focus to look at how to help our youngsters stay safe online and ensure that they grow up knowing how to behave and act responsibly when surfing and chatting on social networking sites or even gaming online.
The internet is probably one of the most significant digital technologies for the children of our time – it’s become a vital tool for homework, as well as being their playground and entertainment centre all in one. Facebook celebrated its 5th birthday on Wednesday with a staggering 150 million users where many see it as central to keeping track of their social life and what’s on. More – Being safe and secure online is paramount
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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