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High tech is human

At a recent NESTA event, Matt Jones described Microsoft's X-box Kinect product as "military-grade surveillance".

16.01.2012

Computer Science in Schools

Michael Gove's speech at BETT this morning is a big win for Next Gen's campaign for computer science in schools in several ways.

11.01.2012

The future of games

The video games industry is changing rapidly. Established studios are going to the wall and new players, focusing on social and mobile, are getting in on the action. Read on to find out how the landscape is changing, and the challenges that lie ahead for the UK games industry.

28.07.2011

Web 2.0

Just enough technology

The solution to better public services isn't better technology, it's just enough technology to allow better human contact.

05.01.2011

Big data - the Model T stage

We hosted a lively debate around the power and possibilities of big data

18.11.2010

Silicon Valley comes to the UK

This is a great, innovative four day programme where some of Silicon Valley's A-list entrepreneurs come to the UK.

17.11.2010

5. Are you 'wasting' resources you don't realise you have?

Look at your services through different eyes – where are you wasting resources that could help you be more effective?

29.10.2010

4. Don't 'buy-in' the answer - develop your own solutions quickly and cheaply

There’s a perception of innovation as something that’s expensive, or only the task of experts. This doesn’t need to be the case. We’ve come across countless examples of innovation in public services driven by the staff who work in them using low-cost tools and speedy processes.

28.10.2010

Just how crazy are entrepreneurs?

The New York Times published an article recently about an entrepreneur, Seth Priebatsch, and described what it called his 'hypomanic' attributes: an elevated mood, obsession with one idea, little need for sleep, massive self-confidence.

30.09.2010

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