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

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’

Urban Open Systems• Smart Cities:

– Smart: innovation, invention & entrepreneurship– Inclusive: multiple deprivation & scale of social exclusion in urban

areas– Sustainable: cities generate 75%+ of emissions = problem & solution

• Cities as engines of regional growth = Smart Regions

– Manchester City Region – MCR = 5% of national economy, 40% of regional economy

– City Region = larger economic unit than Wales, Northern Ireland or North East of England

• Urban Open Systems = People + Open Data + Co-production– “From Human Factors to Human Actors”

Bannon, J Liam. 1991. “The Role of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction Studies in System Design”.

Critical Infrastructures• Green, Mobile & Digital• Digital as the new real estate of the 21st century• UK as world leader in creativity and content – catching up in terms of connectivity• MCR is 2nd largest digital & creative sector in UK• Only globally connected Internet Exchange outside of London• Digital Hub Network: connecting key sites via the

Metrolink tram network• Creating transformational digital infrastructure

• open access networks – fibre + wireless• digital hubs – where networks interconnect• backbone networks – build your own networks

• Infinite Bandwidth, Zero Latency (IBZL)

Infrastructure for Mobility The £1.5bn GM Transport Fund is funding large scale extensions to the Metrolink tram network

Manchester Airport City Enterprise Zone: New hub for global businesses linking a string of key sites. Up to 10,000 new jobs over the next 10 years of which at least 7,000 would be new to city region. Business property taxes (circa £10m+) available for reinvestment.

Manchester Living Lab & SMARTiP project• Test-bed smart environments network along Corridor• Affordable and accessible sensors including DIY (Arduinos)• Potential for wearables (clothes, bikes etc.) and micro-production• Links to Corridor fibre and wireless networks• Future links to transport network and GM wide deployment

What is a Fab Lab?"A Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is a fully kitted fabrication workshop which gives everyone in the community from small children through to entrepreneurs and businesses, the capability to turn their ideas and concepts into reality."Manchester has been chosen as the first city in the UK to host a Fab Lab, a community inventors' workshop where new products can be built by both businesses and individuals. It was born out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology see about us for more info.

www.fablabmanchester.org

Thank You!d.carter@manchesterdda.com

Growing sectorMostly SMEs

Skills shortageDespite 50,000 graduates a year

Students unaware of opportunitiesLearn-and-work schemes complex

Limited public funds

Conference80 delegates from education

and business

Talent Day800+ students meet 40+

businesses

Collaboration4 universities • Colleges • Digital businesses

Course list

Placement brokerage

AggregationUniversities and departments

Multiple small businesses