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 You!d.carter@manchesterdda.comwww.manchesterdda.com