5 things tagged with “Living Labs”
It’s A New Day, It’s A New Year
Posted by Dave Carter on January 11, 2012.
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 [...]
Digital Agenda Europe – support the Manchester Local2020 ‘team’
Posted by Dave Carter on May 9, 2011.
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 [...]
“Smart Cities”: the new ‘original, modern’ or the techno empire strikes back
Posted by Dave Carter on March 9, 2011.
Manchester is a founder member of a new European Smart Cities network which aims to promote the idea that, by making a conscious effort to use innovative digital technologies to improve living and working conditions, we can develop a more inclusive and sustainable urban environment. Manchester is working with a group of cities which have [...]
Post Digital Britain
Posted by Dave Carter on September 17, 2009.
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 [...]
What’s going on? Summer in the city……
Posted by Dave Carter on August 13, 2009.
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.
