Digital Birmingham Wireless City

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Digital Birmingham Wireless City

• Chris Price
• Director Digital Development and Communities
• Service Birmingham

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Questions

• If wireless is the answer,
• whats the question?
• What comes first
• service transformation or technology?
• What is a digital city and how is wireless part
  of it?

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Birmingham context

• Global city with a local heart Digital City
• Time of Transformation
• radical change in service provision
• disruptive technologies
• People and Business needs
• the technology is necessary but not sufficient

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If wireless is the answer, whats the question?

• Misconceptions
• Panacea
• One product
• Media literacy
• Anywhere anytime
• Needs subsidy
• What we want is information as a utility
• immediate, relevant, personalised
• and seamlessly available

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Office of National Statistics The Digital Age
March 2007
                                                
           Households with selected ICT, UK
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If wireless is the answer, whats the question

• Mobile
• Immediate - Voip
• Answers (service)
• Local context
• PDA and mobile
• Experiencing the city in my hand

• Fixed
• Reflective - Email
• Explore (surfing)
• Not context aware
• PC and laptop
• Accessing the world from my mouse

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If wireless is the answer, whats the question

• BT wireless cities project
• Their investment using Birmingham's
  infrastructure
• Non exclusive, nominal cash but city benefits
• Service trials
• Free Information Zone - a test bed for multi
  channel information access

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What comes first service transformation or
technology

• Birminghams commitment to transformation
• How do we predict technological change and
  peoples usage
• The Digital Challenge
• and the DC10

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Aston Pride Partnership
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What is a digital city and how is wireless part
of it

• Digital Charter and work programme - focusing on
  outcomes for stakeholders not inputs

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What is a digital city and how is wireless part
of it

• Digital Charter and work programme - focusing on
  outcomes for stakeholders not inputs
• Birmingham - the digital city
• channel, technology and
• supplier agnostic
• synergetic and integrating
• innovative and inclusive

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Thanks

• Chris Price
• chris.price_at_servicebirmingham.co.uk
• www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk