A hot bed of ideas

Written by Tony Henderson | Published on July 15, 2010

We have updated our Ideas Marketplace , see previous post, and it has become a hot-bed of people with great ideas looking for partners and organisations offering their skills to help turn ideas into live projects for the £18m Collaborating across Digital Industries competition.

We have taken all the posters and post-it notes from the live events and put them online in two communities, partners wanted and skills offered. Everyone can now get involved or launch their own search for partners to collaborate with or offer their skills by posting their own details on the site.

The competition is being run by the Technology Strategy Board and we have a video interview with Alex Stanhope of the TSB in which he gives more details about the competition. The competition is split into two categories, fast track for which the deadline for applications is July 22 and mainstream projects for which the deadline is August 19. All the details are in the competition briefing paper.

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Finding Partners for £18m Collaboration R&D Competition

Written by Sam Michel | Published on June 28, 2010

Judging by the number of people coming along to this year’s Partnering for Innovation events, there’s lots of interest in collaboration to get a slice of the £18m Collaboration Across Digital Industries competition.

There are a number of challenges in entering a winning bid: meeting the scope of the competition, finding the time (you’ll need ~100 hours for a mainstream application) and finding partners to collaborate with.

For the last Partnering for Innovation events, the Ideas Marketplace taking place during the lunch break has been aiming to help with this challenge. It might be low tech – getting ideas up on sheets of paper and taking pictures – but it’s working well.

Below are Flickr slideshows from the Glasgow and Manchester events. Peruse the companies involved who are looking for partners.

There are contact details in most of the pictures and you can find details of all the delegates at the events and connect with them using the Beacons social network. There is a dedicated group for the Collaboration Across Digital Indsutries competition.

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Partnering for Innovation: Metadata – Speakers Announced

Written by Sam Michel | Published on June 25, 2010

The Partnering for Innovation 2010 events take on a Metadata flavour from 1st July with events taking place in London, Birmingham and Cambridge.

These events will provide a detailed insight into the Technology Strategy Board’s £5m Collaborative Metadata R&D competition, with a chance for one-to-one sessions and the Collaboration Café.

John SheridanJoining the event line-up are two speakers with deep insight and experience into the area. In Birmingham, John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the Office of Public Sector Information, part of The National Archives will be delivering the keynote.

Chris ThorpeChris Thorpe from Jaggeree joins the London event to talk about metadata and his experiences at MySpace, The Guardian and beyond.

The events are filling up quickly, but there’s still a chance to grab a space:

  • Birmingham – 1st July – RSVP
  • London – 6th July – RSVP
  • Cambridge – 9th Sept – RSVP
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You read the blog post now watch the video

Written by Tony Henderson | Published on June 23, 2010

If you weren’t able to join us at our creative industries sustainability event,  either online or at the actual venue, then you can watch a video of the edited highlights. Also don’t forget to join the creative industries and sustainability community on our website to join in the discussions and keep up-to-date with the project as it develops plus news of future events.

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Does sustainability need a re-brand

Written by Tony Henderson | Published on June 22, 2010
Lord Puttnam

Lord Puttnam

Is it time to find a new name for sustainability? Does it require a re-brand? That was one of the issues that came up at the launch of our project looking at how creative industries can lead us to a sustainable future.

It might not appear to be the biggest of issues but it certainly sparked off some interesting discussions at the event. Does sustainability imply that we simply want to keep things the way they are was one point raised, while another was the idea that the word sustainability has lost its impact.

It was certainly something that several people who were following the event via the live streaming and on Twitter commented on. However, no one came up with a “killer idea.” But feel free to throw your best ideas our way.

The event kicked-off with Lord Puttnam giving us his views on creative industries and sustainability and we then had a lively “round-table” debate using the Talkaoke format and technology. Jonathon Porritt chaired this and you can read his views on creative industries and sustainability on the Forum for the Future blog.

We will be putting up videos from the image in the next couple of days but if you haven’t registered for our Sustainability Beacon Project group then this is the time to do it. There was a big turnout for the launch event, both in person and online and we will be announcing some further events and sparking off some new discussions on our website

The debate in full swing

The debate in full swing

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