glasgow’s transformation industrial city to digital city gordon kennedy deputy chief executive...
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GLASGOW’S TRANSFORMATION
INDUSTRIAL CITY TO DIGITAL CITY
GORDON KENNEDY
DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE
SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE GLASGOW
UTILISATION AND INNOVATION
• 2002 – Glasgow founder member of the e-Cities partnership
• Six Scottish cities plus business lab and St Andrew’s University
• Aspirational benchmarkingSharing best practicePromoting action on e-readiness
• Four themes - E-business - E-learning - E-community - E- government
E-BUSINESS
• E-business club – e-business advisors, broadband demonstration centre
• Specialist support– Targeting Innovation Ltd– Intellectual Asset Management Centre
• Tech-media Intermediary Technology Institute
• Specialist Quarters/Property – Science Parks/City Science
– Digital Media Campus
• Wireless Tourism Initiative
E-BUSINESS EXAMPLE
Digital Media Campus
E-LEARNING
• Glasgow Schools Network, Glasgow Telecolleges Network, Clydenet
• The Real Learning Network
• Urban Learning Space
• Glasgow Digital Library
E-LEARNING EXAMPLE
THE REAL LEARNING NETWORK
• More than 100 centres across Glasgow
• More than 500 free public access PCs
• 140,000 registered real learners
• Wide range of learning materials developed/delivered
E-COMMUNITY
• Three Cisco community Networking Academies
• VIPONAIR – Europe’s first internet radio station for the blind and visually impaired
• IXSEED – www.ixseed.org.uk – Web Site and technology centres for people with learning disabilities
• Community Cyber Cafes
VIPONAIR
• Europe’s first fully accessible internet radio station for the blind
• Launched in 2003
• Developed by Glasgow City Council, Royal National Institute for the Blind, BBC
• Services include immediate availability of newspapers instead of 2-3 days wait for audio tape.
• Employs blind and visually impaired
E-COMMUNITY EXAMPLE
• Access Glasgow Board drives strategy – private/public partnership
• I Business programme – shared services – multiple access points – access centre, web, mobile devices, smart cards
• Web-site – “AA” rating for accessibility
• City Plan online
• E-consultation
• Mobile Workforce – Laptop, Blackberries
• Project 2002 – All High Schools refurbished, ICT enabled.
• Glasgow Young Scot and Kidz cards – Smart Card Technology.
• E-procurement
E-GOVERNMENT
GLASGOW YOUNG SCOT (GYS) AND KIDZ CARDS
• Over 75,000 multi-technology smart cards for 12-18 year olds and under 12s (Kidz)
• Membership of libraries and leisure centres enabled
• Free swimming, discounted bus fares, other discounts
• Cashless catering
• Gathers young people’s views and encourages citizenship.
E-GOVERNMENT EXAMPLE
WIRELESS STRATEGY• Many public/private initiatives but ad-hoc. No
city-wide strategy to date
• Glasgow business community early adopters
• Wireless Steering Group (Public/Private) established to deliver a wireless Glasgow strategy – first consultative draft May 2006
– Wireless city centre– Positive planning policies– Access to public infrastructure– Public sector initiatives (Bus Information and
signalling, mobile close circuit TV)
GLASGOW INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY OF THE YEAR AWARD 2004