Jonathan Kestenbaum, CEO of NESTA, opens the conference and welcomes Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Jeremy outlines the strategy for the future of the UK and how technology can play a part.
The Central Office of Information is interested in understanding the answers to some key questions from participants at Reboot Britain. Digital technologies are profoundly changing the world we live in. Just like any organisation, COI and the wider civil service need to adapt and flex with it. How could we address these challenges, particularly in the way we deliver digital public services, information and communications? We are looking for your contribution at the event to address these questions through facilitated graffiti wall input, wiki platform entries and audio visual vox pops through out this event. We will take the output of this content to feed into a 3 day innovation expose at Civil Service Live, the largest conference for civil servants on 7,8,9 July at London's Olympia. The Central Office of Information (COI) is the Government's centre of excellence for marketing and communications. The Digital Policy team are responsible for setting digital standards and digital guidance across government.
Monday July 6, 2009 10:00am - 6:00pm BST
Common RoomSavoy Place
Learning without Frontiers brings together leading experts in new learning technologies to show their wares and discuss the impact they will have on learning for the future. This session features Kam Star from Playgen talking about serious games and how gaming technology is transforming learning.
Monday July 6, 2009 10:30am - 11:00am BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
At the moment, broadband infrastructure stops at the entrance to the home and services within the home are more or less glued on. Technologies don't talk to each other and services within the home often need their own proprietary infrastructure, resulting in unnecessary cost and complexity. This significantly limits the range and usefulness of services that can be provided over the broadband connection. UK 3.0 aims to transform the delivery of public and private services by bringing together a new ecosystem, facilitated by standards-based smart-home technologies, products and services, and serving every home in the UK within the next 10 years. Having a standard platform within every home will allow even micro-business to develop many new and valuable applications and services, supporting: Improved safety and security; independent living for those who want it; reduced energy expenditure; enhanced societal participation. UK 3.0 is bringing together a consortium of Government, the construction industry, financial institutions, application and service providers and all other agencies needed to deliver this powerful vision, delivering a net benefit of £100 billion per annum to the UK economy from 2019 onwards. Richard Foggie, Assistant Director Electronics Innovation in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, will present an overview of the initiative and learn from you what value you could add and how UK 3.0 might support what you are doing.
Monday July 6, 2009 10:30am - 11:30am BST
MountbattenSavoy Place
Unless we act rapidly, public services are about to drive off a cliff. The killer combination of recession, debt, and long term macro-challenges, like ageing and climate change, mean the time to talk of tinkering efficiencies is over. We need a radical shift. Given this busted flush, how can technology help us create the far better, much cheaper state we need? In this session, Jonty Olliff-Cooper of the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos will outline the key challenges for the public services, and suggest how will we can meet them if the only answer is progressive conservatism - doing more for less. To respond, we welcome Craig Newmark, founder of Craiglist, the revolutionary community website that some believe is a public service in its own right.
Monday July 6, 2009 10:30am - 11:30am BST
Council Chamber2 Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL
The Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build effective web-based solutions to real social problems through participant-driven weekends where software developers, designers and those who know about social need build a set of solutions to six social problems - all in just 48 hours. The Social Innovation Camp team will be bringing their usual brand of competition and collaboration to Reboot Britain to take a set of ideas for improving healthcare from back-of-the-envelope to reality in just a few hours
Monday July 6, 2009 10:30am - 12:30pm BST
Riverside 1Savoy Place
Learning without Frontiers brings together leading experts in new learning technologies to show their wares and discuss the impact they will have on learning for the future. This session features Dawn Hallybone, ICT Co-ordinator at Oakdale Junior School in the London Borough of Redbridge, looking at how using videogames opens up learning for pupils. Also attending are 4 young people from the school. Come and ask them what they think about gaming and learning.
Monday July 6, 2009 11:00am - 11:30am BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
How will budget cuts force us to think more creatively? How will budget cuts encourage us to listen more? How will budget cuts result in needing design to transform participation in public services? How will budget improve the way we communicate?
Learning without Frontiers brings together leading experts in new learning technologies to show their wares and discuss the impact they will have on learning for the future. This session features Lizbeth Goodman, Director of Research, FutureLab.
Monday July 6, 2009 11:30am - 12:00pm BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
Learning without Frontiers hosts Derek Robertson, the National Adviser for Emerging Technologies and Learning in Scotland to discuss how games based learning can transform the way children learn and understand. With them or against them? Embrace or resist? Children's engagement with online and consumer games is inevitable. How should parents and teachers react?
Monday July 6, 2009 11:30am - 12:30pm BST
Council Chamber2 Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL
Learning without Frontiers brings together leading experts in new learning technologies to show their wares and discuss the impact they will have on learning for the future. This session features Adrian Hall from Okapi Consultancy.
Monday July 6, 2009 12:00pm - 12:30pm BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
Learning without Frontiers brings together leading experts in new learning technologies to show their wares and discuss the impact they will have on learning for the future. This session features Graeme Duncan from Caspian Learning on the 3D internet and social media gaming platforms.
Monday July 6, 2009 12:30pm - 1:00pm BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
When it comes to public service media, we can no longer afford to commission projects based on one person's "big idea". We need to be more scientific and find out what people really need before spending millions of pounds on ideas which reach the very few. In this session we'll look at how cutting-edge design and research methodologies from industry are being used to de-risk the development of new products and services, how these could be applied to public service media and where they're most needed. We'll explore current examples of public service media - good and bad - before going through some real life practical methods you can use to do it better. You'll come away with a list of key thinking points that you can apply when commissioning or developing new public service media projects.
Public services often contain information government departments or local government wish to impart to citizens, but do they actually encompass what citizens want to know, and present information in the way citizens want to see and find it? This session will explore how and where public services are being developed from the community up, and how real people can be supported not just to use them but to improve them too. How do public services connect with real people - especially those excluded from technology - and how can we help people connect with public services? Led by UK online centres, we hope to present best practice, think about how that can be scaled up, and consider what needs to be done to put community at the heart of public service. Chaired by Helen Milner, Managing Director of UK online centres, the workshop will aim to produce a top 10 list of key service improvements from the people for the people, generating practical ideas for future action.
Learning without Frontiers brings together leading experts in new learning technologies to show their wares and discuss the impact they will have on learning for the future. This session features Chris Deering, Chairman of Codemasters on how consumer electronics will change the face of learning.
Monday July 6, 2009 1:00pm - 1:30pm BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
Learning without Frontiers brings together leading experts in new learning technologies to show their wares and discuss the impact they will have on learning for the future. This session features Tony Parkin, Head of ICT Development at the Specialist Schools & Academies Trust talking about the difference between 19th century models of learning and 21st Century learners.
Monday July 6, 2009 1:30pm - 2:00pm BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
Learning without Frontiers brings together leading experts in new learning technologies to show their wares and discuss the impact they will have on learning for the future. This session features Neil Bailey, Chief Executive of WildKnowledge talking about location based learning.
Monday July 6, 2009 2:00pm - 2:30pm BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
Paul hopes that an ecology of private start-ups, social entrepreneurs and government investment can be created to deliver services that are better and more effectively targetted. The digital world is not about content, but about organisation, he argues; cyberspace is not a world apart but rather a tool for re-imagining and re-creating the real world. http://www.schoolofeverything.com
Learning without Frontiers presents this panel discussion for those of us interested in how the education system needs to reinvent itself to compete for the attention of young people in the 21st Century. With gaming technology, social media and consumer electronics commanding the attention of young people, how can these tools be used to develop learning and help teachers teach. Come and have your say.
Monday July 6, 2009 2:30pm - 3:30pm BST
Riverside 2Savoy Place
Placing people at the centre of a more innovative and agile government and public sector is Lee Bryant's priority, to enable 'smart' government - 'big' in its inclusiveness, 'small' in its bureaucracy. We need to move beyond pointless debates about 'protecting' or 'cutting' public sector spending and instead focus on how we mobilise service users and providers to re-invent user-centric public services for the Twenty-First Century. http://www.headshift.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=20
