iTools & resources

Interactive Digital Television is providing a new route to access Birmingham City Council services in the comfort of your home.

Subscribers to Sky Digital, Virgin Media, Freeview broadband services and those with a web-enabled iPhone, iPad and iPod, can access Birmingham''s local digital channel and use it to find jobs, report problems like graffiti and potholes, renew library books and find out about the benefits from the City Council.

Viewers can click on a number of links to over 50 information and service areas that covers jobs, bus and train travel information as well as a trial GP appointment booking facility - includes interactive advice and guidance from the citizen Advice Bureau and the Legal Service Commission) and JobCentre Plus with up to the minute jobs and opportunities available in Birmingham. The idTV channel currently attracts 195,000 hits per month.

Download the dedicated iPhone, iPad and iPod application at: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/looking-local/id409806455?mt=8

How to connect using Sky - path to Local Services on Sky:

Go to Channel 539 and press RED
Select Looking Local
Select Midlands and then Birmingham

How to connect using Freeview (with modem or broadband)

Insert the following url into the browser:
http://www.digitv.gov.uk/digitv/cds/birmingham/netgem/home

How to connect using Virgin Media - path to local services

From the main menu screen select either number of option or use cursor keys on remote to selection option
7 Interactive
2 News and Info
6 Looking Local
5 Midlands
3 West Midlands
2 Birmingham

If you don''t subscribe to Digital TV you can access your local channel for Birmingham from here.

Digital Lifestyle Questionnaire

The aim of this survey is find out about Birmingham citizens' access to digital technologies, use and attitudes and the difference this makes for everyday life in Birmingham. And as such, the extents to which citizens are empowered by their access to digital technologies.

Digital Lifestyles: Interactive Digital TV - iDTV