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

Manchester - transitions

• ‘original, modern’ city• ‘shock’ of rapid industrialisation• legacy of urbanisation• impact of de-industrialisation• a ‘tale of two cities’ from the

start• poverty and pollution alongside

wealth and culture• de-population: from 750,000 to

420,000• 21st century growth: now nearly

500,000 people

Digitisation

ROAD - 50ADCANAL - 1734

RAIL - 1830

FIBRE - 1970s-Next Generation Access 2010-

SHIP CANAL - 1894

AIR - 1938

Global Market Connectivity

Innovation, Creativity and Diversity“Technology, Talent and Tolerance” Richard Florida.

• Largest urban regeneration programme in the UK• Transformational Infrastructure (mobility, digital, energy)

• User driven open innovation – Living Labs• Co-creation – co-production

– innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs– building, operating and owning infrastructure– user generated content and services– generating global skills and jobs locally

• ‘Smart Cities’

Thank You!d.carter@manchesterdda.com