The document summarizes Manchester's digital agenda and initiatives to promote smart, sustainable growth through digital transformation. Key efforts include establishing the Manchester Digital Development Agency to coordinate the digital agenda, promoting open innovation and open data, developing a connected "living lab" testbed, and working towards a vision of a future smart city that uses digital technologies to improve quality of life.

1. Manchester City Region: Manchester Digital Development Agency: MDDA set up in 2004 to coordinate Digital Agenda for the city region Dave Carter, Head, MDDA, Manchester City Council. UK.

2. Manchester’s Digital Agenda Smart, inclusive & sustainable growth Green & Digital Transformational public services – e-Government + e-Services Open Innovation, Open Data & Open Networks Future Internet enabled Smart Cities Internet of Things + Cloud + Open Data + + + Manchester Living Lab open innovation test-bed Partner networks: Manchester Digital trade association MadLab – Manchester Digital Lab

4. Connected City – Connected People Community innovation: social media + social networking for skills and jobs: www.peoplesvoicemedia.co.uk Digital business innovation – Manchester Digital trade assoc. www.manchesterdigital.com Manchester Living Lab : open innovation R+D: FabLab & MadLab www.openlivinglabs.eu www.fablabmanchester.org www.madlab.org.uk Fibre & Wireless everywhere

5. Smart City development - future vision: Using Future Internet to transform the way we live and work more flexible ways and locations of working: smart mobility, smart environments, smart learning Co-designing and co-producing services for ourselves and others new services being designed and delivered by users, e.g. e-health and telecare services Enabling our environments to be greener, cleaner and healthier smart buildings, smart energy, low-carbon neighbourhoods Making smart cities more democratic, resilient and attractive social networking to promote civic engagement Generating and celebrating creativity, innovation and diversity arts and culture linked to technology supporting jobs and skills

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8. Open Data

9. Free , not-for-profit , volunteer run central space for creative technologists , artists , critical practitioners to support serendipitous cross-over and signposting

12. E-health

13. The Corridor £3.2bn turnover

14. University £650m Metropolitan University £250m NHS Trust £500m

15. Context Corridor Science parks Hospitals Universities Corridor Connections Informal events brought clinicians together with digital businesses

16. Results Extraordinary flow of ideas Innovative identification of problems, not just solutions Follow through very difficult Cultural gap Procurement by NHS complex