20 things posted by Dave Carter
Surfing UK: closing the digital divide between rich and poor
Posted on February 15, 2010 in .
Many people will remember Claire Shearman who worked with us on a number of EU ICT projects in the 1990s. Claire now lives in Melbourne, Australia, and was recently listening to a radio programme about the Digital Divide in Europe, originated by a German radio station and broadcast by Australian radio.
Manchester City Region makes the case for fibre
Posted on February 9, 2010 in fibre to the premises, FTTP, Manchester City Region, mdda, nga.
Yesterday at 5pm we finally got the full submission into the NWDA to ask for just under £10M of investment to build a state of the art Open Access fibre to the premises (FTTP) network connecting up as many of the key employment sites in the city region as possible. The MDDA team, together with [...]
and so this is Christmas (nearly)…..
Posted on December 16, 2009 in digital manchester, eurocities, green digital, manchester town hall, nga.
Here’s to a Green (and Digital) Christmas! Things are finally beginning to get a little less hectic and we’re starting to plan some great things for 2010. In the meantime the Tech Team have put together a great little time lapse video piece of the view from the Town Hall tower across St. Peters Square [...]
Finland agrees legal right to 100Mb broadband for all by 2015
Posted on November 10, 2009 in broadband, Europe, finland, nga.
Just come across this fascinating news story from one of my favourite European countries, Finland. As well as gaining the legal right to have at least 1Mb access by next year it has now been agreed that everyone will have the right to a 100Mb connection by the end of 2015. Perhaps even the reindeer [...]
BBC story on how home fibre is taking off all around the world, but, once again, not in the UK, yet!
Posted on September 17, 2009 in bbc, broadband, fibre, nga.
The BBC have been consistently good on picking up on these stories, this one last week from the BBC News site, showing that the deployment of the fibre to the home and businesses is surviving the downturn, at least in other parts of Europe. The UK is nowhere near the top ten ‘fibre to the home’ [...]
Post Digital Britain
Posted on September 17, 2009 in amsterdam, CBN, city-net, community broadband network, Living Labs, nga, software freedom.
It only seems a few days ago that I was enjoying the last of the summer sunshine, thinking I was still on holiday, but in fact I’ve been back for two weeks and I feel I’ve done nothing but catch up on emails, posts, blogs and general updates on where we all want to go with [...]
Peterloo 190 years on
Posted on August 18, 2009 in manchester, peterloo.
Great turnout to commemorate the Peterloo massacre on Sunday. Speeches from the campaign plus Tony Lloyd MP and Cllr. Jim Battle, Manchester City Council Deputy Leader. Really impressed with the group from Oldham who marched all the way following the routes taken by protestors on August 16th 1819 some in period dress and carrying some [...]
Stay Sharp!
Posted on August 14, 2009 in digital growbag, digital media centre, Sharp, sharp factory, sharp project.
One of the most exciting developments this year has been the Sharp Project, based at the old Sharp Factory, just off Oldham Road, north of the city centre.
What’s going on? Summer in the city……
Posted on August 13, 2009 in Living Labs, open innovation.
In spite of all my best efforts July came and went without a chance to add anything to the blog so now things are a little bit quieter I’ve sat down to add a few things, starting with info about the Peterloo anniversary events taking place this Sunday below. The last six weeks have been some of the busiest of the year.
Peterloo anniversary this Sunday – August 16th
Posted on August 13, 2009 in peterloo, peterloo 190th anniversary.
This Sunday marks the 190th anniversary of Peterloo, an event that played a pivotal role in not only Manchester’s history but also the history of the struggle for human rights generally. For years many of us have campaigned for there to be a proper commemoration of the events that took place around (what is now) [...]
