Broadband in Practice

Steve FlemingHull City Council

Telecities, Gijon: 1/10/04

• The Digital City strategy • Kingston Communications & their capabilities• The CityDigital company & partnership • Testbed for what broadband means everyday,

for everybody – generating & defining joined up models

• The connected city: anything, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, anyhow, anybody

• Transformation, regeneration, solutions

Who we are & what we want to achieve

Kingston in Hull• Kingston Communications

– Formerly the City Council Telephone department– Flotation– 4Tb platform for high bandwidth services

• Kingston Interactive TV– Multichannel satellite & broadcast TV– Video on demand– Internet– NHS Direct– Depaul Housing Trust VOD, interactive advertising– Job Centre Plus– Relax with a Book

Partners’ Projects

• The BBC– Developing the future of broadcasting in the

non linear, interactive, broadband world– The new multimedia region– BBCi: Video diaries, news on demand– Headstart, SOS Teacher, It’s Child’s Play

• Blockbuster• Kingswood Broadband TV• Hull Interactive TV & Humber Interactive

Kingswood BBTV

• Was one of England’s worst 200 schools• Fresh Start• One of England’s 200 most improving schools• The school’s initiative, working with the local

networks (CityLearning) & partners (BBC, Sun, Sony, Kingston

• In the school, in the home• Measuring it• Impacts

Hullywood

Revolutionising…

• …Teaching & Learning• Getting off the bottom by doing something

different• With partners• With investment and commitment• In the bigger world• Learning by stealth• Knowledge economy by stealth

Hull Interactive TV• Revolutionising Teaching & Learning…beyond

Kingswood; & Humber Business TV; • The rest of the package of model makers: health

& social care; housing & independent living; eGovernment services; democracy & voice;

• Partners requirements, community requirements• Specific joined up public service solutions aimed

at key renewal indicators• The public benefit part of the value model• Utility and the horizontal capacities

• Impact • Focused solutions for issues, that just happen to

use the technology, within a bigger picture• Value for the citizen and the consumer• Value for the supplier (public & private)• Critical mass, utility, horizontal capabilities -

integrating, integration, solutions at economic rates

• Connected public & private model• Creating demand• Making it easy models

What we want out of it

Features

• Cross platform, interoperable, • Applicable, replicable, scalable, sustainable• Not more of the same – jumping to a new way• Demonstrating the impact• Reverse engineering from the citizens’ priorities• Creating a market for businesses, citizens and

the city• Developing our niche in the Knowledge

Economy

Contact

Steve Fleming Hull City Council

+44 (0)1482 613329

steve.fleming@hullcc.gov.uk