GLASGOW’S TRANSFORMATION

INDUSTRIAL CITY TO DIGITAL CITY

GORDON KENNEDY

DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE

SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE GLASGOW

UTILISATION AND INNOVATION

• 2002 – Glasgow founder member of the e-Cities partnership

• Six Scottish cities plus business lab and St Andrew’s University

• Aspirational benchmarkingSharing best practicePromoting action on e-readiness

• Four themes - E-business - E-learning - E-community - E- government

E-BUSINESS

• E-business club – e-business advisors, broadband demonstration centre

• Specialist support– Targeting Innovation Ltd– Intellectual Asset Management Centre

• Tech-media Intermediary Technology Institute

• Specialist Quarters/Property – Science Parks/City Science

– Digital Media Campus

• Wireless Tourism Initiative

E-BUSINESS EXAMPLE

Digital Media Campus

E-LEARNING

• Glasgow Schools Network, Glasgow Telecolleges Network, Clydenet

• The Real Learning Network

• Urban Learning Space

• Glasgow Digital Library

E-LEARNING EXAMPLE

THE REAL LEARNING NETWORK

• More than 100 centres across Glasgow

• More than 500 free public access PCs

• 140,000 registered real learners

• Wide range of learning materials developed/delivered

E-COMMUNITY

• Three Cisco community Networking Academies

• VIPONAIR – Europe’s first internet radio station for the blind and visually impaired

• IXSEED – www.ixseed.org.uk – Web Site and technology centres for people with learning disabilities

• Community Cyber Cafes

VIPONAIR

• Europe’s first fully accessible internet radio station for the blind

• Launched in 2003

• Developed by Glasgow City Council, Royal National Institute for the Blind, BBC

• Services include immediate availability of newspapers instead of 2-3 days wait for audio tape.

• Employs blind and visually impaired

E-COMMUNITY EXAMPLE

• Access Glasgow Board drives strategy – private/public partnership

• I Business programme – shared services – multiple access points – access centre, web, mobile devices, smart cards

• Web-site – “AA” rating for accessibility

• City Plan online

• E-consultation

• Mobile Workforce – Laptop, Blackberries

• Project 2002 – All High Schools refurbished, ICT enabled.

• Glasgow Young Scot and Kidz cards – Smart Card Technology.

• E-procurement

E-GOVERNMENT

GLASGOW YOUNG SCOT (GYS) AND KIDZ CARDS

• Over 75,000 multi-technology smart cards for 12-18 year olds and under 12s (Kidz)

• Membership of libraries and leisure centres enabled

• Free swimming, discounted bus fares, other discounts

• Cashless catering

• Gathers young people’s views and encourages citizenship.

E-GOVERNMENT EXAMPLE

WIRELESS STRATEGY• Many public/private initiatives but ad-hoc. No

city-wide strategy to date

• Glasgow business community early adopters

• Wireless Steering Group (Public/Private) established to deliver a wireless Glasgow strategy – first consultative draft May 2006

– Wireless city centre– Positive planning policies– Access to public infrastructure– Public sector initiatives (Bus Information and

signalling, mobile close circuit TV)

GLASGOW INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY OF THE YEAR AWARD 2004