Manchester City Region: Manchester Digital Development Agency:MDDA set up in 2004 to coordinate Digital Agenda for the city region

Dave Carter, Head, MDDA, Manchester City Council. UK.

Manchester’s Digital Agenda• Smart, inclusive & sustainable growth• Green & Digital• Transformational public services – e-Government +

e-Services• Open Innovation, Open Data & Open Networks

• Future Internet enabled Smart Cities• Internet of Things + Cloud + Open Data + + +

• Manchester Living Lab open innovation test-bed

• Partner networks: Manchester Digital trade association

MadLab – Manchester Digital Lab

Connected City – Connected People• Community innovation: social media + social networking for skills and jobs: www.peoplesvoicemedia.co.uk • Digital business innovation – Manchester Digital trade assoc. www.manchesterdigital.com • Manchester Living Lab: open innovation R+D: FabLab & MadLabwww.openlivinglabs.euwww.fablabmanchester.org www.madlab.org.uk • Fibre & Wireless everywhere

Smart City development - future vision:• Using Future Internet to transform the way we live and work

• more flexible ways and locations of working: smart mobility, smart environments, smart learning

• Co-designing and co-producing services for ourselves and others• new services being designed and delivered by users, e.g. e-health

and telecare services• Enabling our environments to be greener, cleaner and healthier

• smart buildings, smart energy, low-carbon neighbourhoods• Making smart cities more democratic, resilient and attractive

• social networking to promote civic engagement• Generating and celebrating creativity, innovation and diversity

• arts and culture linked to technology supporting jobs and skills

Thank You!d.carter@manchesterdda.com

Open Data

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E-health

The Corridor

£3.2bn turnover

University £650m

Metropolitan University £250m

NHS Trust £500m

Context

CorridorScience parks

Hospitals

Universities

Corridor ConnectionsInformal events brought clinicians together

with digital businesses

Results

Extraordinary flow of ideasInnovative identification of problems, not just

solutions

Follow through very difficultCultural gap

Procurement by NHS complex