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Community building and engagementThe ITaaU method for fostering collaborative multidisciplinary utilisation of IT in the digital and post-digital economy

Steve Brewer: IT as a Utility Network+ Research CoordinatorUniversity of Southampton

Helsinki University, Helsinki22 May 2014

Outline

Overview of the Digital Economy research themeIT as a Utility Network+Identifying the communityPathways to engagementImpact to dateLessons learned

DE vision: transformational impact of digital technologies on all aspects of life

The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence by Don Tapscott in 1995The Internet has changed how we do businessThe Research Councils UK created major funding stream - 138 million since 2008Aim: to have a wide impact on society, jobs, businesses, industries and research

IT as a Utilityfunded under Research Council UK's Digital Economy theme

The Digital Economy vision is of the transformational impact of digital technologies on all aspects of life.

Introduction: partners & collaborators

PI and Co-Is: Jeremy Frey, PI (University of Southampton)Gerard Parr (University of Ulster)Mark Sandler (QMUL)Richard Mortier (University Nottingham)Mike Surridge (University of Southampton)

Advisory group: ustwoIBMBTThalesMicrosoftBBC ReseaerchCabinet OfficeDSTLZenotechCambridge & Newcastle Universities

Steve Brewer Network Coordinator(University of Southampton)

Identifying the communities

The Cloud

The Digital Economy

food security

traditionalutilities

cloud computing

sensors &actuators

telecommunications

data-drivenscience

electronic labnotebooks

Network+smart spaces/smart cities

libraries ofthe future

tangibleInterfaces

apps are thenew taps

3D printing

Apps for Healthcare 7 MayUser Experience/User Interface Design Workshop 8 MayDelivering Food Security: from the Cloud to the App 13 MayData as a Utility, Analytics as a Service 9 JuneITaaU Community Conference, Southampton 19-20 JuneCloud computing - Newcastle 11-12, NovemberPlatforms for Media Production - Bournemouth - autumnDE2014 London December 3-5Cloud workshop @ UCC2014 London, December 8-11

Call 1Trusted Tiny Things (Aberdeen) interactive bus stopsUplands Rescue Resilience (Cambridge and QMUL) integration of communication systems in the mountainsCall 2Sun and Sky (Southampton)BluPoint (Southampton) small extension givenThe Typology Of Loss In Vaccine Supply (UCL)Communities in the clouds (Nottingham)CloudMaker (Liverpool John Moores) big launch

THIRD call hasjust closed

Secondments

Goal: to facilitate knowledge exchange between researchers in universities, business organisations and policy making bodies such as government agencies

Workshops held at the Food Standards agency in LondonYao (Frank) Gao QMUK Weightless SIGWorkshop at QMUL on M2M wireless standardRavensbourne + BT projectAshiq AnjumSB site visit to Bristol(project proposal anticipated) Dr Deveril report producedfurther project planning underway

Impact to date

Around 20 workshops (average 20 attendees)7 pilot projects underway or completed4 secondmentsThriving community of 170 researchers across all domains and industry plus governement agencies etc.Community conference in Southampton, UK in June, 2014 places still available:http://www.itutility.ac.uk/ai1ec_event/it-as-autility-network-community-conference/?instance_id=

Lessons learned

Fostering inter-disciplinary collaboration mattersAchieving this takes timeIncentives needed funds for pilot projectsWorkshops improve quality of project applicationsCommunication: go out and give talks, social media, flyers, brochures and papersListen, discuss, and share ideas & opportunities

Join the ITaaU Network+

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