Connected Digital Economy Catapult and Related University and Industry-Led Collaboration: Update
Bill Dutton & Bill Imlah
Oxford Internet InstituteUniversity of Oxford
Prepared for a meeting at the OII with friends and colleagues with an interest or involvement in the CDEC, 31 January 2014.
[email protected]@ODECgroup
Outline for the Meeting
Background of Current Collaboration
Current Activities in Support of Collaboration:
The Connected Digital Economy Catapult:
An Update
Bill ImlahInternet Research and Collaboration Officer
CDE Catapult6
• Applied R&D & Innovation centre
• TSB funded - £10M pa
• Innovator centre based in London
• Remit: boost UK digital economy
What characterises CDEC?
• Neutral convenor role
• Help DE innovators commercialise
• Developing platforms, skills and assets
• Promoting to business & public sector leaders
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Initial areas of focus8
• Creative media and content
• Digital health
• Digitally enabled cities
Criteria for projects9
Open to reuse – substantial impact
Clear demand from innovators
No insurmountable macro factors
Committed consortium
Market wouldn’t do CDEC-contribution soon
Project: Trusted Data Accelerator10
• Feasibility study
• Allow organisations share data & experiment
• Address privacy & security fears
• University of Oxford role - cyber security
Project: Integrated Transport and Weather Information Pilot
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• Real-time weather & hazard info
• Transport and logistical info
• For decision-making, new services & applications
Project: Greater Manchester Data Synchronisation
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• Coordinated release of city datasets
• Open datasets resources and toolkits
• Joint datastore hosting linked data
• Embedding Code Fellows
• In talks with Oxford to build on Code Fellows experience
Project: Open Health Data Platform
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• Platform for for visualisation & exploration
• Combine NHS data, open sources
• Big Data technologies
• For organisations to experiment
Project: Digital Copyright Exchange
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• business trading platform
• A marketplace for digital rights
• address orphan-works problem
Project: 5G Demonstrator15
• Large-scale, demonstrator for 5G
• Long-haul project (est. 5G deployment after 2020)
• Allow innovators to develop and test new apps & services
In discussion: Oxford Personal Data Project
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• Drawing on midata Innovation Lab work
• Expected to involve County & City Councils, plus other partners
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Next step: London-based Innovator Centre
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• Demo and showcase innovations
• Connect innovators to end users & customers
Discussion