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

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’

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

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Grass Roots Community Space

Learning by doing

Supporting alternative &

sustainable practices

Space for user groups & peer

learning

Supporting Voluntary Sector

Organisations

Digital Creatives

Workshops

http://omniversity.madlab.org.uk/

@Omniveristy

http://diybio.madlab.org.uk/@diybiomcr

Thanks!

•http://madlab.org.uk/•hwayoung@madlab.org.uk•dave@madlab.org.uk•@MadLabUK

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“By, for and of” the member businesses

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Close working relationship with MDDA