City Innovation Lab : Manchester

Computer Science

30th June 2010

Overview

• What it is

• Current state of play

• Why it should be of interest to CS

• Discussion

ICT Driving Transformation• Major challenges and opportunities

– health and social care

– low-carbon economy

– leisure and wellbeing

• Mobile is game-changing

– personal, context-aware, real-time

• More than technology

– social science, psychology, business models …

– influencing behaviour

• Live experiments

– evidence, evidence, evidence

Aims of CIL : Manchester• City-wide test-bed – living lab

– economic & social value of innovation

– expertise in large-scale trials as enabler for innovation

– lower barriers to / cost of large scale trials

• Accelerate the pace of innovation– innovation networks

– co-creation/development

– evidence-based

• Sustainable within 5 years– ~ £3M pa innovation turnover

– long-term research

City Innovation Lab Partners

• Manchester: Knowledge Capital

• Manchester Informatics

• Manchester Digital Development Agency

• Greater Manchester Environment Commission

Building on Manchester’s Assets

• History and culture of innovation

• Scale and diversity: social, ethnic, health, lifestyle

• World-class Informatics research

• ‘Instrumented’ population

• Comparatively static population

• City-region pilot

• Investments in digital infrastructure

Components of Innovation Lab

• Infrastructure

– technical platform

– staff/expertise

• Business Community

• Public organisations

• User community

• Live projects

Infrastructure• Technical platform

– data gathering (from embedded devices, sensors etc)

– information management, data mining, consumer behaviour modelling

– feedback: incentives, social networking, persuasive communication, personalised marketing

• People– study design, trials management, analysis

– knowledge transfer: private and public sector partnerships, public engagement

– expertise: technology, social science, psychology, business, health, sustainability ...

Business and Public Organisations• Multiple sectors

– Mobile telecom

– ICT

– Retail

– Transport

– Health

– Creative

• SME multinational

• Public organisations

– City-region

– NHS

User Communities• mHealth

– Citizen-scientists

– Expert patient

– Assisted living

• Transport

– Trip sharing

– Community cycling schemes

• Sustainability

– Energy

– Recycling

City Innovation Lab

State of Play• Partnership with city-region maturing

– mutual opening of doors

• TSB considering proposals

– pump-prime CIL ~£5M

– Trusted services – tripsharing

• IBM prepared to develop infrastructure @ £500K

• Opportunities around Future Internet

– TSB involvement in consortium building

• Other current/future funding calls

Future Internet

Why Should this Interest CS?• Opportunities for new/applied research

– machine learning (analytics), text mining

– information management

– sensors, low-power

– m-Health

– visual computing

– social networks

• Engagement and impact

– industry

– city

– public

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