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Broadband in Practice Steve Fleming Hull City Council Telecities, Gijon: 1/10/04
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The Digital City strategy Kingston Communications & their capabilities The CityDigital company & partnership Testbed for what broadband means everyday, for everybody – generating & defining joined up models The connected city: anything, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, anyhow, anybody Transformation, regeneration, solutions Who we are & what we want to achieve
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Kingston in Hull Kingston Communications –Formerly the City Council Telephone department –Flotation –4Tb platform for high bandwidth services Kingston Interactive TV –Multichannel satellite & broadcast TV –Video on demand –Internet –NHS Direct –Depaul Housing Trust VOD, interactive advertising –Job Centre Plus –Relax with a Book
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Partners’ Projects The BBC –Developing the future of broadcasting in the non linear, interactive, broadband world –The new multimedia region –BBCi: Video diaries, news on demand –Headstart, SOS Teacher, It’s Child’s Play Blockbuster Kingswood Broadband TV Hull Interactive TV & Humber Interactive
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Kingswood BBTV Was one of England’s worst 200 schools Fresh Start One of England’s 200 most improving schools The school’s initiative, working with the local networks (CityLearning) & partners (BBC, Sun, Sony, Kingston In the school, in the home Measuring it Impacts
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Hullywood
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Revolutionising… …Teaching & Learning Getting off the bottom by doing something different With partners With investment and commitment In the bigger world Learning by stealth Knowledge economy by stealth
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Hull Interactive TV Revolutionising Teaching & Learning…beyond Kingswood; & Humber Business TV; The rest of the package of model makers: health & social care; housing & independent living; eGovernment services; democracy & voice; Partners requirements, community requirements Specific joined up public service solutions aimed at key renewal indicators The public benefit part of the value model Utility and the horizontal capacities
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Impact Focused solutions for issues, that just happen to use the technology, within a bigger picture Value for the citizen and the consumer Value for the supplier (public & private) Critical mass, utility, horizontal capabilities - integrating, integration, solutions at economic rates Connected public & private model Creating demand Making it easy models What we want out of it
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Features Cross platform, interoperable, Applicable, replicable, scalable, sustainable Not more of the same – jumping to a new way Demonstrating the impact Reverse engineering from the citizens’ priorities Creating a market for businesses, citizens and the city Developing our niche in the Knowledge Economy
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Contact Steve Fleming Hull City Council +44 (0)1482 613329 steve.fleming@hullcc.gov.uk
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