A short presentation on the Digital Agenda, delivered to Barnsley Council's Leadership Team.

1. BLT Digital Workstream
“Digital Barnsley”
Ken Eastwood & Martin Cantor
26 May, 2011

2. It’s an ‘age’ thing!
We’re entering a new information age that will
be as transformational as the industrial age
that shaped our past.

3. Some examples
› Telehealth
› Mobile working
› Smart Cities / Smart Grids
› Cashless Payments
› Teleconferencing
› Cloud computing (& collaboration)

4. › The future is mobile!
› Smartphone revolution
› Mobile new connections now
exceeding PC connections
› APPS

5. Digital Opportunities
Economy
Resources Community
(Service
Transformation)
Carbon

6. Economy
SCR LEP Creative & Digital Sector projects
estimate benefits over 10yrs;
- £1,000m+ of private investment
- 10,000+ new jobs
- 2,000+ new businesses
Creating SCR’s reputation as one of Europe’s
leading digital and innovation places

7. Economy
› Not just about CDI
› 21st Century Market = Online Markets too
› Best place to start & grow a business
› How do we scale?
› What do we need to do to support?

8. Resources (Services)
› NOW: Paper + Phone + F2F + Digital
› FUTURE: Digital First + other routes [if
necessary]
› Community leadership e.g. cashless council
› This IS relevant to all of us!
Digital by Default

9. Carbon
› Ways of working
› Travel
› Smart grids and cities
› Internet of things
› Data

10. Connected communities - transformed lives
• A fully interconnected community
• Learning and creative individuals and
communities
• Active civic engagement and good
governance
• Citizen to citizen interaction (smaller
state intervention)
• Less isolation
• A cleaner, greener, safer environment

11. Canada’s ‘Digital Nation’
“We want to make Canada the first digital nation
in the world. This involves not just supporting
high-tech sectors, but understanding how digital
media is changing the way we communicate, do
business and access news and entertainment.”
“Infrastructure investments should not be
directed to 20th Century things like roads and
bridges. We’ll be able to fund those things in the
future from health cost savings.”

12. We want New York City to be the nation s
premier digital City – in how local government
interacts with New Yorkers, in how New Yorkers
have access to and capitalize on new
technologies, and in how our tech and digital
media sectors evolve, grow businesses and create
jobs. The Road Map for the Digital City will help us
get there.
Mayor Bloomberg
17 May, 2011

13. Our Strategy
1. Universal access to the connected world
2. Everyone in Barnsley online
3. The business community
4. Connected Communities
5. Transformed services

14. Switchover?
Analogue Digital
F2F Online
Letters eComms
9 to 5 24/7
Cash Cashless
Fixed Mobile
Parental Social
Dependent Self organised
Broadcast Engaged
Block access Encourage participation
How do we [you] switch to digital?

16. Questions
1. What should we be doing to create ‘Digital
Barnsley’ ?
2. How can your services innovate and take
advantage of the ‘Digital Opportunities’ ?
3. What are the blocks and what can we do to
lift them?
4. How will we become ‘Digital by Default’ ?