Manchester City Region: creating Next Generation
Digital Cities
Dave Carter , Head, Manchester Digital
Development Agency (MDDA)
Manchester City Council
Digitisation
ROAD - 50ADCANAL - 1734
RAIL - 1830
FIBRE - 1970s-Next Generation Access 2010-
SHIP CANAL - 1894
AIR - 1938
Global Market Connectivity
Disruptive technologies• digital infrastructure: the ‘real estate’ of the 21st century• the world turned upside down: users as producers and networkers• ubiquitous high bandwidth connectivity: 100Mbps to 100Gbps ++• Next Generation Access (NGA): open access networks• open hosting, open exchanges
Innovation & Creativity• advanced e-infrastructures (access)
• NGA as transformative
• creativity and innovation (content)
• innovative business models• building, operating and developing networks• creating new marketplaces• new trade = new jobs = new skills
• social networking (engagement)
• user generated services• digital inclusion and co-operation
• new business models (sustainability)
• talent, technology & tolerance
Connected City – Connected People• Community regeneration – jobs, skills, improved environment• Digital business sector – Manchester Digital trade assoc. www.manchesterdigital.com • Innovation – Living Labs open innovation research and development platformwww.openlivinglabs.eu• New infrastructures – next generation broadband – fibre to the premises (FTTP) + wireless
Future Smart Cities• ‘Living Lab’ NGA FTTP test-bed in Manchester Oxford Road Corridor area: starting with 500 businesses + 1,000 residential users• City Net Digital Hub: connecting key sites via the Metrolink tram network• City Region Met-Net: linking key sites using transport corridors, inc. Metrolink, waterways, cycleways, old rail lines plus new networks• Multi-stakeholder SPV – a ‘digital cooperative’ based on global best practice – e.g. US National Telecoms Coop Assoc. (NTCA)
Green + Digital + Cooperation = sustainability
Next Generation Access
One Central Park
sharp project
Sport City
ManchesterCollege
Corridor
test-bed
InternetExchange
Central Salford
100 gigabit+DARK FIBRE LOOP
CITYCENTRE
ConnectivityPowerSpace
ConnectivityPowerSpace
Digitisation – next phases +
Media City
Connectivity via Metrolink
Connectivity via Metrolink
MCR NGA deployment
Peering with JANET
Smart Cities as Creative Cities:• beyond NGA: to TDI:
- Transformational Digital Infrastructure •getting smart: talent, technology and tolerance = creativity, innovation and diversity• getting organised: Living Labs + Future Internet• getting noticed: new ‘Smart Cities’ agenda
Building Open Networks
Fast Open Data
Green Source User-generatedAccess Mad things need MadLabs
Future Internet Fab things need FabLabs
Everything....in essence:
‘the hacienda must be built......’
Thank [email protected]