by siwhitehouse | Dec 10, 2014 | Events, News
At our October 2014 meeting there was a briefing by Simon Whitehouse on the Share PSI project, which has Digital Birmingham as one of its project partners. Share PSI is the European network for the exchange of experience and ideas around implementing open data...
by chrisprice7482013 | Aug 18, 2014 | News
Superfast broadband is here – in Birmingham – now, and businesses large and small are already taking advantage of the opportunities it affords, such as software-as-a-service or instant collaboration with clients and colleagues. To help SMEs connect to superfast...
by chrisprice7482013 | Aug 18, 2014 | News
Every single minute, the world generates 1.7 million billion bytes of data, equal to 360,000 DVDs. How can our brain deal with increasingly big and complex datasets? EU researchers are developing an interactive system which not only presents data the way you like it,...
by chrisprice7482013 | Jul 4, 2014 | News
Thanks to Eurocities, here is a summary of a European Commission document on data The European Commission has today released a Communication titled “Towards a thriving data-driven economy”(Link Below). This a further step by the European Commission to try and unlock...
by siwhitehouse | Apr 10, 2014 | News, Policy
I recently gave the presentation below to the April meeting of the forum. It’s not pretty as I didn’t project it for people to see, but used it instead to prompt me in what I was talking about. Hopefully that means it includes some useful points for people...
by Admin | Mar 11, 2014 | News
An interesting development in the retail sector, where John Lewis are running an open innovation competition to find ideas for “catapulting the retail shopping experience into the future”. Called JLAB, the process will give five startups £12,500, office space, access...
