Digital Birmingham is a Birmingham City Council initiative and part of a city wide strategic partnership of more than 30 public, private and voluntary organisations
Digital technologies hold the key to Birmingham's future growth and economic success.Our focus on the development of global technologies for communication, investment in the infrastructure to develop a first class connected city and the development of outstanding interactive and collaborative content will complement and strengthen all activities across the city.
Through Digital Birmingham and its 3 year programme, the city has a focus for innovation and action. You can find out more about our projects through the links below:
We are involved in...
Commmunities Building Capacity
is the Birmingham vision. The aim is to create sustainable and cohesive digitally enabled communities by creating a framework to support exchange between Community and Voluntary organisations.
is an example of the benefits of IT in supporting learning and economic gain. Digital Birmingham, in a unique partnership with Aston Pride and other agencies achieved national recognition with the "Computers in the Home" Project which has contributed to real achievements in learning.
DC10plus - A conversation about diabetes
DC10 is supporting Digital Birmingham in a unique language/health project. The resource is aiming to develop language skills through interaction with a discussion on diabetes.
will help households cut energy bills through a revolutionary new online energy 'dashboard'. DEHEMS is led by Manchester City Council.
The City has started a new and exciting project which will transform a section of the city into one of the most dynamic and innovative regions in the world. The Digital District will transform Digbeth and the surrounding areas into a high-quality environment for working, living and learning, supported by an exceptionally high-speed network.
In the Aston Pride area of Birmingham where the majority of residents are from ethnic minority groups and where English for many is not their first language, there was a health education need around diabetes awareness and control.
is a programme led by Coventry University in partnership with key public and private sector organisations to address key urban issues relating to transport, tourism, security and climate change through the exploitation of information technology.
Intelligent Transport
It combines a range of data including traffic congestion, car parking availability and bus scheduling to provide real time location-specific tracking information through one platform. The concept would present the commuter and visitor with information specific to where they are at the point of enquiry.
Keeping IT in the Family is a comic style resource, designed to engage young people, particularly school-aged children, in order for them to help teach their families important IT skills. Originally developed as a pilot with Microsoft, the success of the pilot attracted subsequent funding from BECTA, which has enabled the development of a second series which builds upon the basic IT skills gained from the first series and moves the family on to use those new skills to get the most from digital technologies.
Digital Birmingham have created a local digital TV service for Birmingham. This means that Birmingham citizens can access around 50 information and service areas through their TV that covers jobs, bus and train travel information as well as a trial GP appointment booking facility.
The 'LUCID' demonstrator was delivered by Digital Birmingham in partnership with Birmingham City University. They have delivered an innovative application which has allowed users to receive location specific services and information via a mobile device.
The 'Birmingham Open City' project will develop an online community that will enable local people to influence the planning and delivery of services. The Open City Plan is a web 2.0 approach to generating collaboration, discussion, creativity, debate, data mash-ups and open source tools to enable the people of Birmingham to contribute to service planning and performance monitoring.
This programme, which is led by Birmingham City Council, follows set government policy. Digital Birmingham influences and assists the programme with its aim for every learner across the city to have as 'an entitlement' the opportunity to access a connected computer at home and gain the benefits that brings.
aims to promote the use of virtual technologies such as 2D/3D mapping, web 2.0 and virtual worlds to discover their future potential and capabilities for enabling partners to deliver better services and citizens and residents to experience the city in many dimensions.
This website is a guide to information and services that you may find useful if you are new to our city or if you are working with people who are newly arrived.
Innovating the way in which Birmingham parents and carers can apply for their child's school place, Digital Birmingham aims to enhance the digital channels available to citizens and enable applications for school places to be made from the comfort of their own homes using a technology already familiar to them - Digital Television.
A pilot project was undertaken in Windsor Tower (which is a block of 42 flats in Erdington) as part of a trial to assess whether giving tenants access to broadband in their own flats through the current IRS infrastructure would help improve their quality of life.
