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Unwanted IT kit recycled with Secure door to door collection service and exclusive recycling offer in Centenary Square during Climate Change Festival. read more
Unwanted IT kit recycled with Secure door to door collection service and exclusive recycling offer in Centenary Square during Climate Change Festival. read more
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Secure Household IT Collection Service
Secure IT Disposals Ltd, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City Council and Digital Birmingham are offering a city wide collection service for IT equipment and data containing devices read more
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c21VOX
c21VOX has been running innovative projects combining new media & arts to encourage self-expression, primarily in young people, putting them in the foreground of the production process. read more
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In a marriage between one of Birmingham's most ancient offices and one of the most modern of digital technologies, the new Lord Mayor of
Birming more...
VirtualGym TV , a new kind of internet-gym offering a bank of full-length professional fitness sessions - each conducted by a leading fitness i more...
June is Birmingham's Digital month. There are a host of planned digital events across the city. For those of you who are doubtful about the digit more...
Birmingham businesses looking to solve the problem of disposing of their outdated and unwanted IT equipment without breaching company security or r more...
In one of the first council-backed schemes of its kind in the UK, Birmingham residents can wave goodbye to their old, unwanted computers and IT equ more...
Since March Birmingham City Council, Service Birmingham (the joint Capita and Birmingham City Council venture), SAP and Axon have been working toge more...
Digital Birmingham has launched a competition linked to the 'Keeping IT in the Family' resource. We are inviting Birmingham's pupils to tell the st more...
BECTA ( the government's education technology agency) has launched a great new quiz where you can test your knowledge on internet safety. Have a go. more...
Plenty of digital activity at this innovative festival between the 5th and 20th June. You can:
Join in with the festival’s huge mobile phone more...
Birmingham City University plays a part in C4’s 'How to Look Good Naked'
Birmingham City University secures a lead in the film industry with more...
The old joke about your children being the only ones able to programme the video comes of age this month with the launch of ‘Keeping IT in th more...
Birmingham has emerged as the leading regional wireless city in the UK.
Use of Birmingham’s wireless or wi-fi broadband network has incre more...
And help young homeless people get back on their feet
Birmingham 'St Basils - The Virtual Rucksack' project developed in partnership with more...
In his first official engagement as the newly appointed Minister for Digital Inclusion, Paul Murphy MP is to make a keynote speech at the third Nat more...
A massive eight tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) are set to be saved each year thanks to four Birmingham schools going green by installing solar pa more...
Created in Birmingham
This is a weblog about the creative community in Birmingham run by Pete Ashton and it is a blog that was Joint-winne more...
Fierce! the International Live Performance Arts Festival presents MY FIERCE FESTIVAL where you decide what performances are in the festival more...
A graduate from the Aston Pride IT Cisco Academy at the Manor Park ICT and Media Centre has achieved a coveted placement with local employer Servic more...
An Aston mum of two has found rewarding work she can do from home – thanks to the Aston Pride home computing initiative supported by Digita more...
The West Midlands region is gearing up to lead the country in inspiring and 'de-mystifying' science with the launch of a new video-on-demand online more...
Channel 4 has confirmed that Birmingham will be the national hub of its new £10 million digital media fund.
Midland media firms will be able more...
An Aston mum of two has found rewarding work she can do from home – all thanks to the Aston Pride Computers in the Home initiative, supported more...
When Google searches for information on the Internet it is looking for the key words you have submitted. When you type a sentence in the Google sea more...
Birmingham's neighbourhood offices are embracing up-to-the minute technology by displaying information about council events and services digitally more...
The Birmingham Post goes digital with the launch of The Birmingham Post.net. All the insight, news and analysis is now only a click away giving you more...
Former US President Bill Clinton and global IT giant CISCO Systems joined forces in San Francisco today to invite Birmingham to become one of the w more...
Birmingham is embracing the digital age and is a proving a major force in the digital media landscape. Read Robert Gray's report on the factors tha more...
At BETT 2008, one of the UKs leading education shows, Jim Knight, recognised the work of the Aston Pride IT 'Computers in the Home' programme and s more...
Birmingham City Council is using more energy effcient processes and green technologies to lessen its impact on the environment. Service Birmingham more...
A pay as you go card system similar to one in London will be used on buses and trains in the Midlands.
Click to view video from BBC News more...
About 2,000 school pupils in Birmingham will each be given a new laptop computer to help them with their studies at home
The pupils are part of more...
One of the country’s most sought-after voiceover artists and the voice of Aks-Moe in ‘Star Wars Episode 1’ has put his weig more...
Invitations are invited to submit a proposal to undertake a review of good practice from the UK and wider in using ICT to support individuals and t more...
The BBC online news report 'Britain enjoying Digital Boom' highlights key points from Ofcom's annual report that shows how technology is changing t more...
Parental engagement through Digital Birmingham’s Aston Pride ‘Computers in the Home’ project was recognised as a major strength o more...
The film industry is set to descend on Birmingham, following the city council’s decision to back a digital film festival.
A new Digital Fil more...
Barnaby Bear is going back to Egypt to find Nemo
Follow Barnaby bear as he sets off on another adventure - this time in search of Nemo. Barn more...
Diwali in Birmingham will get blasted into the digital age as Digital Birmingham and the Hindu Council of Birmingham launch Digiwali as part of the more...
Special IT Recycling Event
Wednesday 24 October 2007, Centenary Square, Birmingham
Over 6 million items of electronic equipment, including comput more...
Get Online Day takes place on Friday 12 October during Family Learning Week and aims to encourage families who don't use or have access to the inte more...
Birmingham Libraries in partnership with Digital Birmingham are embracing the free software movement and offering CDs of ‘Open Source&rsquo more...
Birmingham City Council in partnership with BT launched birminghamfiz - the UK’s first openly accessible free information zone (fiz), as part more...
Aston Villa’s Luke Moore launched a series of events, activities and competitions to celebrate Birmingham’s status as a ‘BT Wirel more...
Business advice and technology assistance from Digital Birmingham have proved invaluable in the development of an ingenious new greetings card prod more...
SNAPshot is a fantastic tool to test out your business idea. Easy-to-use, it thinks like an investor and uses proven business models to find out if more...
Hundreds of Birmingham community and voluntary groups have been given the chance to create their own website and network with other groups by harne more...
When your screen is white - an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. more...
The Birmingham Strategic Partnership (BSP) is launching the online pledging campaign (www.birminghamcuttingco2.org) at midday on July 16th at a cli more...
"With more than 800, 000 children and young people still restricted to access at school, we run the risk that they could be isolated and left behin more...
Find out how you can set up a free website for your community that will give you a voice and presence online at a half day free to attend works more...
The Aston 'Computers in the Home' project
This initiative has enabled over 400 Aston families to benefit from a computer, wireless connectivity a more...
Digital Birmingham partner, OpenAdvantage, is inviting staff to attend a free Open Source Showcase on 20th June 2007 at the New Technology Institi more...
Birmingham City Council has announced plans to connect 450 schools, 60 libraries and 240 council-related offices in one of the UK's most advanced l more...
Interactive digital TV (iDTV) is now giving Sky Digital and Virgin Media, Freeview and 3G subscribers a faster way to access information on, and re more...
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The Birmingham Bulletin service, a new more...
Birmingham city centre is to get its very own interactive entertainment centre after plans were revealed by its creators.
Called Omega Sektor, more...
Keep up-to-date with what's happening in the city with email bulletins delivered straight to your inbox.
The new Birmingham Bulletin service fr more...
Digital Birmingham with Birmingham City Council hosted the National Union of Journalists welcoming 320 NUJ delegates to the city for their centenar more...
Art Auction 2007 is a three day celebration of contemporary art in Birmingham, raising funds for the region's new, world class Leukaemia Centre at more...
Chris Price, Director of Digital Developments and Communities at Digital Birmingham presented at the Mobile Government conference in London where h more...
Mustafa Shevket from Matthew Boulton College will talk and answer questions about the UK digital switch-over in a radio interview. Listen in to: more...
Birmingham City Council’s joint bid with Shropshire County Council was amongst the final 10 national finalists out of 79 entries in the National Di more...
Digital Birmingham celebrated the success of its first year with an interactive public exhibition and showcase in Victoria Square on Wednesday 14 F more...
Digital Birmingham is working with Open Advantage to set up the first National Open Source Centre (NOC) in Birmingham.
The NOC will impart knowl more...
Birmingham, in partnership with BT, is at the forefront in developing a city centre, street based wireless network and is leading the Wi-Fi revolut more...
Smart Surfers, launched at the 'Get Digital' event on Valentines day is a new easy to use online free resource, from Digital Birmingham, that has b more...
CIRCUIT is the joint bid between Birmingham City Council and Shropshire County Council, in response to the Government’s Digital Challenge competiti more...
Digital Birmingham will be launching their Digital Curve online fun activity. The Digital Curve aims to help Birmingham people find out where they more...
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