Martin Cantor, Principal European and Regional Strategy Officer, Barnsley Council discusses Barnsley online at NextGen 09 in Leeds 16 and 17 November 2009
2. Totally Online Barnsley The Why Digital Region project Making IT Personal Digital Barnsley e@sy Connects
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Editor's Notes
Our ambition and what we mean by it. In shorthand – everyone digitally aware and digitally enabled
Part of a bigger programme of activity both on the digital front and geographically with partners in the rest of South Yorkshire We are majoring on harnessing the power of the digital Most notably, £94 million Digital Region project giving South Yorkshire the best infrastructure in Europe (heard about elsewhere in this conference)
life is cheaper, more fun, better informed, easier to manage communities of place and of interest no point having a motorway if the population can’t drive services can be more individual and more citizen-created and they’re cheaper to run