Smart City Futures

The Conversation Continues

Selected:

Dave Carter

Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) Manchester City Council

Head

Sessions:
Workshop: Next Generation Digital Infrastructures

Dave has recently received the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) Founders Award, in recognition of his role with Manchester City Council in developing the MDDA and the many innovative projects he has worked on during his career These include: the UK's first public access email system; the "Manchester Host" and the Electronic Village Halls in 1991; the digital summer festival in 1998 to celebrate Manchester being the birthplace of the first real computer in 1948 and most recently the "Fibre to the People" pilot project for next generation broadband for Corridor Manchester Dave's work also stretches beyond Manchester and the UK. He is one of the founding members of Telecities, a project in the Eurocities network that promotes knowledge sharing on new technologies among European cities. Telecities has been running successfully for 15 years MDDA is co-ordinating the pilot project for next generation access infrastructure - fibre to the premises for Corridor Manchester - repeated below

Speakers:

Smart City Futures

To find out more about the Smart City Futures conference please email Anna Higson, SCF project manager.