36 things posted by Dave Carter
2012 International Year of Co-operatives
Posted on February 2, 2012 in .
Great opportunities this year for raising the profile of one of Manchester’s greatest assets, being the home (respect to Rochdale obviously!) of the Co-op movement. There are probably still a lot of people who don’t yet realise that 2012 is International Year of Co-operatives and that later this year (late October/early November) Manchester will host one [...]
OPEN for business, the key word for 2012
Posted on January 11, 2012 in apps for democracy, future everything, madlab, manchester, mdda, open cities, Open Data.
The success of Open Data initiatives over the past year has motivated increasing numbers of people and organisations to work together to make 2012 a year when this work really does make an impact. Ranging from the local work that Open Data Greater Manchester has been doing to European networks working on Open Cities and through to global [...]
It’s A New Day, It’s A New Year
Posted on January 11, 2012 in Living Labs, manchester, mdda, smart cities.
Following several (fully justified) critical emails and Blog comments about why I haven’t been using my Blog, I’ve finally got round to doing something about it. We’re soon to be refreshing and relaunching the MDDA website but, like many organisations making commitments to do this, it’s taken us a bit longer than anticipated. This is [...]
Manchester’s Digital Corridor: the ‘final frontier………..
Posted on July 22, 2011 in .
MDDA hosted an open consultation for local digital businesses and other organisations based in the Corridor area, i.e. Oxford Road, Ardwick, Hulme, Knott Mill and environs, last night to talk about progress with our fibre to the premises (FTTP) initiative. More than 30 people came representing all sizes and shapes of digital businesses and networks together [...]
Indy networks get sorted: ‘don’t moan, organise!’
Posted on July 22, 2011 in broadband, digital infrastructure, INCA, nga.
More than 50 people representing independent digital networks from across the UK got together in London this week to plan the next steps in a national campaign to support ‘bottom up broadband’ initiatives. The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) was set up two years ago to provide a voice and a vehicle for change whereby community [...]
Back in the USSR……………
Posted on July 13, 2011 in 50th anniversary, gagarin, manchester, ussr, yuri gagarin.
On July 12th 1961 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin visited Manchester and huge crowds braved the rain to welcome him to the city, where he recieved honorary membership of the Foundary Workers Union at their HQ in Brooks Bar. On July 12th 2011 Cllr. Jim Battle, Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council, hosted a 50th anniversary celebration of [...]
If you don’t know me by now….
Posted on July 4, 2011 in dave carter, manchester, woodcraft folk.
After enduring weeks of people wanting to know why it seemed that I was cajoling people to ‘get to know me’ I can now exclusively (well, not really!!) reveal that I agreed to take part in an online experiment with good motives and all in a very good cause. The people behind the “I know [...]
July update – Digital Agenda for Europe goes local
Posted on July 4, 2011 in digital agenda, digital agenda for europe, eu, local2020, Manchester Digital Strategy.
Just finished another very busy month building up to and then following up on the Digital Agenda for Europe Assembly in Brussels on June 16th and 17th, read all about it here: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/daa/index_en.htm. More than 1,000 people from across the EU and beyond were involved in the two days of intensive discussion and debate. One [...]
New York, New York – a digital future
Posted on July 4, 2011 in Digital, digital strategy, new york.
Excellent new initiative coming out of the recently formed “nyc Digital” which was set up in July 2010 to create “a new entity for citywide digital strategy that engages, services, and connects the public, making government more efficient and citizen-centric”. They have just published their “Road Map for the Digital City” following intensive consultation with city [...]
Digital Agenda Europe – support the Manchester Local2020 ‘team’
Posted on May 9, 2011 in digital agenda, Europe, Living Labs, manchester, open services.
Things are really taking off across Europe (although some would argue it’s only taken us 20 years to get here!) with the launch of the new Digital Agenda Europe – DAE – initiative (find out more at the DAE website http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm) and the related website “Local2020″, http://www.local2020.eu/, which is working to get far more locally [...]
