Overview Of Digital Birmingham Dec09vs2

• Digital Birmingham is working to ensure that everyone in the city – people, businesses and communities can benefit from digital technologies.

• Initially set up by Birmingham City Council and BT, the partnership chaired by Cllr Paul Tilsley, Deputy Leader, Birmingham City Council, now comprises over 40 organisations such as Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Advantage West Midlands, Primary Care Trusts, BBC, Cisco, Microsoft and the three city Universities.

Our partners

Our aims:

Represent the groups that Digital Birmingham’s programme of work is supporting

• Our programme of work will establish Birmingham as a leading digital city in 2010 and by influencing digital investment and uptake across the city our aim is to generate economic growth, close the digital divide and promote greater social inclusion.

• Our activities are centred on enabling the city, businesses and residents to harness the potential of digital technology. This means creating an infrastructure for a world class digitally connected city and society, developing the personalised interactivity to help people run their lives and businesses more smoothly and ensuring that a digital mindset is embedded in citizens from an early age.

The digital revolution• The current driver of change is the

digital revolution

• Digital technologies are a key enabler as the economic driving force of the West Midlands

• Technology is changing - the norm is for information to be available when and where you need it

The Digital Divide – Deprived Neighbourhoods

• 40% of citizens do not have broadband access to internet at home

• 40% of SMEs still to get online

What this means• £130 billion of business over the internet

• 7 out of 10 businesses communicate with customers through a website

• 17 million people do their finances online

• A billion text messages a week

• Over 50% of 16-24 year olds do social networking

• 20.4 million homes have digital television

AND

…and this means• If all businesses in the West Midlands used technology

this would increase Gross Value Added by nearly £3 billion a year

• It is estimated that each digitally excluded family loses £300 per year through not shopping online

• IT’s CO2-reduction impact is 10 times greater than its direct CO2 production i.e. though impact on transport, energy, building management, working patterns

Our programmeactivities and projects cover 4 key themes

Economic growth

Sustainability

Inclusion and participation

Profile

Economic growth

• Exploring how the city can exploit the benefits of Next Generation Access through the concept of a Digital District initially covering Eastside/Digbeth

• Digital Café campaign with Cafelicious exploring how businesses can make the most of social media tools

• Web 2.0 for business – developing strategies to help businesses grow and support their business

SustainabilityInclude projects such as

• Intelligent Transport concept combines a range of data to provide real time tracking information that can address urban transport issues leading to for instance quicker and ‘greener’ journeys within the city.

• Digital Birmingham, in partnership with Be Birmingham and Family Housing Association is working on a European Union funded scheme looking at how technology can improve domestic energy efficiency.

Inclusion and participation

• Keeping IT in the Family

• Computers for Pupils and Home Access

• Welcome to Birmingham

• Healthy Way to Learn IT

Profiling the digital city : A vision for 2010 events

• Position and profile the digital credentials of the city through linked events in Autumn 2010

• Share & extrapolate digital activity on a global scale• Create a platform for debate and blue sky thinking

around applications of digital technologies and the IT transformation journey

• Virtual and physical - share conference programme with leading global digital cities to present innovative new approaches and challenging solutions

• Set the vision for the future to be universally digital

Birmingham digital week - OctoberProfile: Birmingham digital week – October 2010

What 2010 events look like

For more information

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