Jun 26, 2020
Verizon has joined forces with Digital Catapult, the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre, to launch an immersive accelerator programme to develop innovative 5G solutions for enterprises.
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Verizon has joined forces with Digital Catapult, the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre, to launch an immersive accelerator programme to develop innovative 5G solutions for enterprises.
Week notes 13 Jan 2017
This week was the first that included strikes on Southern Rail, with a 3 day outage courtesy of ASLEF driver union. Of course this was all scheduled to take place on the two days I was needing to travel into London.
Monday was the first day at the Digital Catapult, Brighton. I will be resident UX Coach and Consultant at the Catapult providing advice and training to the resident startups and entrepreneurs over the next 6 months.
We’ve already been discussing collaborations with several of the residents prior to Xmas 2016 and our first day gave us some insights of where we may be able to add value to these fantastic teams.
Tuesday I visited The Open Data Institute (ODI) to discuss options for becoming an official trainer under their program for associates, which I’m happy to say we are moving forward with. I’m hoping that we’ll have all the paperwork sorted out in the next month to confirm We Are AFK as an official partner with The ODI. It gives us the ability to work together and access to more social value projects and activities with NGOs.
Wednesday I spent the afternoon with Christian Lawrence whom I have been mentoring since last summer. Christian is in the process of developing a UX portfolio and has a fantastic idea for a research based project. We looked at ways he can structure his research in order to get qualitative data with the intention of being able to create a product definition from it. I hope he’ll be blogging about it very soon. We also spent some time doing an expert review on a marketing site and native app. I showed Christian an alternative way of evaluating a site of this nature that doesn’t use the, what I feel are drastically out-dated heuristic markers created by the Nielson Norman Group in the early 90s.
These were originally designed for desktop software and doesn’t really apply to anything that is not an appliance.
Thursday was paperwork day. Receipts, invoices, taxes. I cannot believe how much money the government takes from small business every year.
Friday morning was another meeting in London, this time to discuss collaboration on a few projects involving team building, mentorship and coaching for a group I’ve grown to be very fond of in the last year.
The day finished up with a presentation from Fracture Games at the Digital Catapult that I had been invited along to earlier in the week. They’re working on a concept for being able to demonstrate the experiences that can be had with Microsoft HoloLens. The presentation was pretty solid even with the anticipated crashes both hardware and software. They’re taking a very smart approach investing time in finding a way of presenting their work without the need of exhaustive time in After Effects to fake it. I’m hoping to do something with them during my stay at the Catapult.
Digital Catapult helps NHS open its door to innovation
Digital Catapult helps NHS open its door to innovation
On Tuesday 18th October, Bradford’s new Digital Health Enterprise Zone was the venue for an event designed to bring the NHS and local SMEs together to address some of Bradford’s most pressing health challenges. The event – entitled NHS Open for Innovation – was a collaboration between Digital Catapult Centre Yorkshire, Bradford District and City Clinical Commissioning Groups, DHEZ Ltd and Medipex…
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Bradford event seeks new approaches to managing data in the NHS
Bradford event seeks new approaches to managing data in the NHS
On 29 September, Bradford’s Digital Exchange is hosting a cutting-edge healthcare technology event with the NHS. The team at Digital Catapult Centre Yorkshire is inviting digital businesses to an ideas generation workshop with NHS professionals and specialists in ‘blockchain’ technology. With the fast pace of technological change and the budgetary and service demand pressures on the NHS, improved…
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I helped Will make this film last week. It won runner up from The Copyright Hub/Digital Catapult/Hiive Labyrinth competition!
Government cash boost for software developers http://scitechnews.co.uk/technology-2/government-cash-boost-for-software-developers/ - SciTech News - #Technology
http://scitechnews.co.uk/technology-2/government-cash-boost-for-software-developers/
Government cash boost for software developers
The government has invested nearly £500,000 to support small software developers to produce new and innovative ways to use data.
The government has invested nearly £500,000 to support small software developers to produce new and innovative ways to use data to tackle health and social care problems through the Midata Programme.
Consumer Affairs Minister Jo Swinson highlighted the investment which will be used to fund 2 ‘Pit-Stops’, where developers will experiment with newly available data and get help and advice on how to overcome barriers.
The data, provided from a variety of sources, will be used to develop phone apps and online tools that bring together the records about the health and social care that a person receives.
Jo Swinson, Consumer Affairs Minister said:
It is important that consumers have more control over their personal data and the Midata Programme will give them access to the data companies hold about them in a portable, machine-readable format.
This will provide more choice for consumers and benefit the economy by stimulating business innovation and competition. That is why, as part of the government’s Midata Programme, we have supported this important project.
Neil Crockett, CEO of the Digital Catapult said:
Data provides huge opportunities to consumers but they remain nervous about how organisations use data that is personal to them. Similarly, data-owning companies are reluctant to release closed data in case it is misused or leaked to competitors. We need to break down these barriers if the UK is going to realise the potential data liquidity in its economy. The Digital Catapult is focussed on breaking these barriers down and activities such as our Pit-Stops will help the participants find solutions to these dilemmas.
Developers will work on ways for individuals to give permission to others to see and use the records to organise more efficient and co-ordinated services. This will improve the care the individual receives and save the suppliers, such as local authorities and hospital trusts, money.
The Digital Catapult and its partners are also contributing resources to the project.
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