Transcript The Digital Agenda for Local and Regional Development – “What can a Digital Agenda do for me” Who we are • Manchester City.

The Digital Agenda for Local and Regional Development –
“What can a Digital Agenda do for me”
Who we are
• Manchester City Region, UK
• Metro area of 2.6M people, post-industrial city, high
levels of social and digital exclusion
What is our approach to “Digital”
• Manchester Digital Strategy: 3 key areas: digital
inclusion, digital industries, digital innovation
• Building transformational digital infrastructure
delivering Future Internet enabled services for
sustainable smart cities
The Digital Agenda for Local and Regional Development –
“What can a Digital Agenda do for me”
What we had learned that could be transferred to other
Regions
• User driven open innovation initiatives, e.g. Living Labs
• Innovatory business models, e.g. social economy
• Keeping IT open: open access, open data, open source
• Inclusive sustainability, e.g. Green Digital Charter
What would make it “easier to replicate”
• More flexibilities: e.g. remove State Aid from social economy
• More collaboration: cross-border public – social partnerships
• More innovation: co-creation and co-production by users
• More sustainability: Future Internet+Living Labs+Smart Cities