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.

odec@oii.ox.ac.ukwww.odec.org.uk@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