Tweets from Digital Britain Report event in Birmingham
Last week I went to hear Lord Carter discuss his Digital Britain Final Report in Birmingham. I took a laptop and tweeted a little.
As a crude record of what I wrote, what follows is my Twitter stream for that event. All I’ve done is take the html from Twitter Search and pasted it here without its stylesheet. The tweets appear in reverse chronological order.
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citizensheep: Phew. That’s it for #dbicc09 Now off to Fazeley for #dbucc09 -
citizensheep: “This is about enriching EVERYBODY’S lives” #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @jonhickman #dbicc09 @helenmilner “by getting people online we create opporunity, a market for these digital companies: people not pipes”
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citizensheep: RT @digibrum: IT is a tool to get you from A to B – Mustafa #dbICC09
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citizensheep: I’ve just been one of those sad idiots who claps & and nods pompously from the quiet corner of the room. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: @jonhickman Of course not! Being able to shop locally and engage in local community is to do with social inclusion? Erm.. #dbicc09 -
citizensheep: “Literacy unlocks participation” (or something) Literacy in what? It’s more than just reading nowadays. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Out of interest, has any research been done into how many people stay ‘digitally engaged’ once we’ve got them online? #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “Start with developing knowledge economy rather than a knowledge economy first” (paraphrased) Surely both simultaneously? #dbicc09
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citizensheep: @jonhickman …and its economic potential, I mean? #dbicc09
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citizensheep: @jonhickman I think @helenmilner meant if Lord Carter was bolder in his use & advocacy of social media? #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Just realised that for some reason I feel obliged to be reporting this. I’m not. I might try listening better instead. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Internet users are 25% more confident about retaining their job – @helenmilner #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @jonhickman: #dbicc09 now in #epda session – Empowering People in a Digital Age – with Stephen Dobson, @helenmilner, Mustafa Shekvet …
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citizensheep: @Manionbird @podnosh Phubs? #dbicc09 -
citizensheep: Digital Britain needs to acknowledge that many people create content for love or need, not money. Well said @bounder. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @CharlesHunter: @tobybarnes on the #dbicc09 panel – the whole concept of what we knows as “businesses” is becoming constantly more fluid
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citizensheep: Entrepreneurship should be taught in schools, British entrepreneur role models are Ian Beale & Alan Sugar. US has loads. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: @PhotosbyLee YOU HAVE AN OFF SWITCH
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citizensheep: As traditional company’s vacate spaces gaps may be left for community use. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “West Midlands has worst record of entreprenerianism in the Uk: can social media reverse that?” (paraphrased) – @marcreeves #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Clarification: BiNS = Birmingham It’s Not Shit http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “BiNS is a fantastic redefinition of Birmingham online” – @willperrin #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Today is the “first day of the Digital Britain world” – @marcreeves #dbicc09
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citizensheep: From the floor: “Media IS content and it IS platform” (I think) #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Not able to accredit some of these quotes cos I don’t know who’s who (apart from @willperrin and @marcreeves) #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Twitter: simple old technology and amazing creativity as a result. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “You now can’t have a creative industry without a technology industry and vice versa” – (paraphrased) #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Hoping my paraphrasing is accurate. Please don’t quote me without corroborating first! #dbicc09
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citizensheep: If we’re better at content than engineering, should we be investing in that instead? John Kirk #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @TheFrontDoor: Lord Carter has just arrived to do a radio interview with BBC WM from one of our suites. #dbicc09 #dbuc09
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citizensheep: “How much are *we* going to spend to catch up with Singapore in five years time?” #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Go @getgood! “Digbeth is Good is completely redefining Digbeth.” (So says @willperrin) #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Mr @willperrin, you rock. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “Content is King” but that king “will be deposed” – @willperrin #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Running businesses based on content delivery is no longer viable [I think that's what he meant] – @willperrin #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “Content is Queen” #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Phone interference. Nice. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “To make this economy work we must have [a great] infrastructure” #dbicc09
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citizensheep: #dbicc09 ‘Content is King’ panel comprises Jonnie Turpie, @willperrin, Andy Tait, Jason Hall & Toby Barnes. MC’d by @marcreeves #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Lunch was great. Nice chocolatey things. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: ‘Content is King’ session about to start, chaired by @marcreeves #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Apologies to @iain_gray for consistently mis-spelling his name :-/ #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @peteashton: #dbicc09 If business models are becoming unsustainable why does that automatically mean we need to support them (Jobs aside)
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citizensheep: Digital Testbed Project will provide controlled enviromnment for business & tech experimentation – Ian Gray #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @siwhitehouse: TSB also launching Strategy for Digital Britain today. Good, I’ve been sadly lacking in reading material recently #dbICC09
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citizensheep: TSB’s three areas of focus: networks; content & services; user behaviour and experience. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “Today’s business models do not work.” – Ian Gray #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “We’re swamped by information; Internet traffic doubles every two years; infrastructure is creaking”. – Ian Gray #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @jonhickman: #dbICC09 and #digitalbritain fans – also watch #dbuc09 – Brum Unconference now starting at Fazeley Studios
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citizensheep: “digital environement is full of … opportunity” Really. How enlightening. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Ian Gray, CEO of Technology Strategy Board now talking. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “To make these changes people have to be wiling to be institutionally flexible”. – Lord Carter #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Good participation in 12 months would be: delivery body for procurement; all bodies come together as coherent digital UK. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “We need a common and collective effort on participation” – Lord Carter #dbicc09
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citizensheep: What should be the picture in 12 months time? (@helenmilner to Lord Carter) #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @jonhickman: “thats why we wrote what we wrote the way we wrote it” #ministerialtonguetwisters #dbicc09
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citizensheep: I take it all back. National media is here. Sorry @rickwray But live coverage is community & local press I think? #dbicc09
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citizensheep: That is, national media don’t seem to be here. Birmingham Mail and Birmingham Post *are* here. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Will Perrin points out that commercial media are not covering this event. Twitter, bogs, community radio ( @rhubarbradio ) are. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Can @rhubarradio comment? RT @jonhickman: Why do community radio feel they’re competing with commercial radio anyway? [...] #dbicc09
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citizensheep: “Are you going to widen community radio space?” (paraphrased). YES HE IS. READ THE REPORT. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: John Kirk: How do you incentivise ‘The Tethered Gian’ (BT) to invest? #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Adrian Goldberg acknowledged the tweeters here. Good man. Delegates need to know that the conversation is wider than this room. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: @LloydDavis ‘Impartial news’ is probably impossilbae, but giving a broadcaster a specific remit to strive for it is invaluable. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Lord Carter’s explaining & defending his report. Maybe he wouldn’t need to if people had read it before wittering about it. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @helgahenry: Quick scan of “great and good” in crowd. Approx 90% male, 8% non-white and a smattering of facial hair. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Pity no demonstration to delegates of what can be done with their technologies & infrastructures. Eg display of soc med streams. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @timesjoanna: Fantasticly clear audio stream of Lord Carter’s speech from Rhubard Radio: http://bit.ly/4Arkyo (expand) #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Reach those who aren’t reached currently, & – separately – roll out new network capability – Lord Carter #dbicc09 (I think I got that right)
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citizensheep: Importance of future-proof infrastructure (as far as possible), and has reach across the country. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: This report tries to putdigital and knowledge economy firmly on map as industrial necessity for this country – Lord Carter #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Lord Carter up in a mo. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: RT @rhubarbradio: Broadcasting live from #dbicc09 – http://www.rhubarbradio.com/live/events/digitalbritain.aspx
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citizensheep: RT @rhubarbradio: Subscribe to the #dbicc09 podcast: http://bit.ly/ImxWw (expand)
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citizensheep: RT @helgahenry: #dbicc09 – “first intelligent City in the UK” – no mention of a cashpoint machine in the new “Digital District” [...] !
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citizensheep: Cllr Tillsley: Birmingham to be the first ‘intellegent city’ in the uk #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Cllr Tillsley having trouble reading his script. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: #dbicc09 There’s also the Birmingham Digital Britain Unconference hashtag: #dbucc09
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citizensheep: RT @marcreeves: Birmingham Post liveblog from Lord Carter’s #digitalbritain regional launch at #dbicc09 http://bit.ly/8O4aF (expand)
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citizensheep: Cllr Tillsley bigging up Birmingham’s initiatives. Such as Big City Plan. Yep. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Cllr Paul Tilsley talking about Digital Birmingham partnership driving Birmingham forward. #dbicc09
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citizensheep: Don’t forget you can listen to the Digital Britain report launch live via @rhubarbradio #dbicc09
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citizensheep: I’m going to start tweeting with the #dbicc09 hashtag, so be warned. You may want to ignore me more than usual.
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