Bright Ideas - Using technology to support and involve
Introduction
Delegate booking
Getting there
Programme
Workshops and demonstrations
Speakers
Exhibitors
Delegate pack and Report
Presentations
Contact
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9.30am to 4pm Friday 3 November 2006
West Ham United Football Club
Boleyn Ground, Green Street, London E13 9AZ
Exhibitors
Caboodle Solutions Ltd
Formic
Lisson Grove
Local Issues Forum
London Connects
London Voluntary & Community Sector ICT Champion
Microsoft UK
Newham Advanced Telecare (NeAT)
Newham College of Further Education
NIMS
NYPO
RegenTV
Slivers-of-Time
Caboodle Solutions Ltd
The product of a joint venture between Steria Limited and the London Borough of Newham established in 1999, Caboodle works with and in the local community.
For our customers this gives the added reassurance that they are choosing a reliable and proven supplier with the backing of a major European IT company and the support of a large ambitious and forward thinking Council.
Caboodle is all about making IT straight forward and accessible to businesses of all sizes.
Caboodle is a new way of looking at IT. We understand that IT should be making your life easier. It should work when you expect it to and there should be no nasty surprises. That’s why we’re dedicated to providing reliable IT services and cost effective, straightforward solutions.
Formic
Formic’s intelligent document recognition software, Fusion, will rapidly advance your business processes.
Most government organisations commit significant resources to the manual capture of information from documents sent by third parties or created internally.
Fusion automatically reads the information contained in documents whether on paper, Internet, tablet PCs or handheld devices then subjects each piece of data to a series of rigorous checks before transferring it to your enterprise applications. More than that, it will store an image of the original document alongside the extracted data, for instant retrieval.
Typical examples include housing and benefit applications and mobile solutions for housing officers and rent collectors.
Tel: Anna Muskett on 07818 034732
Lisson Grove
Local Issues Forum
Newham Issues Forum is an online forum where local people, using email discussion facilities, share information, raise concerns and seek solutions regarding issues related to living in Newham.
London Connects
London Voluntary & Community Sector ICT Champion
The London ICT Champion is a new and innovative project that will provide the sector with a voice on ICT issues at a London-wide level. In his post as London ICT Champion, Miles Maier is committed to working with policy-makers and funders to promote the benefits of ICT in helping organisations to better meet their goals of delivering quality services for all.
The ICT Champion is also committed to:
- Working with stakeholders to develop a London ICT strategy for the voluntary and community sector
- Representing the sector on ICT issues at a regional and sub-regional level
- Engaging with funders, decision and policy makers to support the development of ICT capacity in the local voluntary sector
- Providing a forum for ICT workers in the local sector to exchange good practice
- Supporting bids to sustain and grow the London circuit rider community
The London ICT Champion builds on work begun by the London ChangeUp ICT Development project to engage with pan-London and sub-regional networks, assisting them to develop ICT support projects for front-line delivery organisations.
Reporting to the London Regional Consortia’s ICT Sub-Group, another part of the London ICT Champion’s work is to build partnerships with other sub-groups such as Equalities and Workforce Development, fulfilling the strategic need identified in the London ChangeUp Infrastructure Development Plan.
The London ICT Champion is funded by Capacity Builders until March 2008 and hosted by Lasa, a partner of the national ICT Hub.
Email: mmaier@lasa.org.uk or call 020 7426 4496
Microsoft UK
Newham Advanced Telecare (NeAT)
Newham College of Further Education
Newham College of Further Education is one of the largest and most diverse providers of further education and training in London and England as a whole, with 30,000 student enrolments per annum.
Newham College is a Centre of Vocational Excellence in ICT and Networking, offering flexible, blended bespoke training when and how you need it.
Backed by our partners Microsoft, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, CIW, CompTIA and Certiport, we offer training in all areas of IT and can offer a training package tailored to your specific needs.
You will be provided with access to modern labs and all the facilities you would expect from the main educational provider to the Olympic borough.
We are best placed to provide businesses with the technological expertise they need to be at the heart of the Olympic action.
Our exhibition stand focuses on:
- Strategic Diagnostic tool - e-skills
- Workshops for Businesses
- ICT Networking CoVE (Centre for Vocational Excellence)- what is it
- ITQ's - Train to Gain
- Academies - Cisco, MS IT Pro Platinum, MS Office Specialist, CIW, Sun Microsystems
- Technologies for Businesses
- Flexible and bespoke training for your Business
- Training needs Analysis
- IOSH (Health & Safety) Training
- RFID - What is it, how can it help your business!!!
NIMS
Newham’s Neighbourhood Information Management System NIMS is an online statistics and information portal that is based on an innovative data sharing concept that has been agreed between the Council and its partners.
Partners include Newham Primary Care Trust, the Police, Fire Brigade and the Voluntary Sector. First launched in March 2004, version 3 is due to go live in April 2007. It is currently funded by NRF.
NIMS stores data from various agencies and allows it to be presented in a variety of formats and combinations to enable evidence based decision-making. NIMS signposts users to appropriate resources to enable the identification of issues and do further research in a way that accesses up-to-date data, avoids duplication and engages the local community in decision making.
NYPO
Newham Young People Online is an exciting an innovative online community for young people (aged 13 - 19) living or studying in Newham. Members learn how to use the Internet in ways that are creative and that increase their awareness of the potential of Information Communication Technologies for peer learning and social involvement - fostering participation in both peer led learning communities and the wider local community.
Participation in NYPO takes place through interaction in online forums and through weekly 'cyber workshop' sessions, youth centre ICT activities, ICT courses and project development meetings.
The central goal of NYPO is that members use ICTs to work cooperatively and to become empowered individuals able to use their knowledge to benefit themselves and the communities in which they live.
NYPO is part of the Newham Community Education and Youth Service (NewCEYS).
For more information visit the website or contact project coordinator Gavin Sealey at gavin@nypo.net
RegenTV
RegenTV offers a wide range of services and benefits to both residents and social landlords. For residents, especially those in social housing, this includes the ability to use their television as a personal computer, to see and hear what’s going on in the community around them, to be involved in the making of television programmes for their own community channel as well as having access to free-to-air digital and foreign television channels.
For social landlords the benefits include raising the visibility of their services in an easy-to-access way and, in so doing, helping meet community engagement objectives.
Slivers-of-Time
At the beginning of 2005, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister funded a project designed to launch a new way of working for millions of people.
Slivers-of-Time Working is for anyone who can only be available for work around other commitments in their life.
Candidates list the hours they would like to work and local employers buy them. Slivers-of-Time enables periods of work as small as one hour, to become routine, enticing, uniquely cost effective and safe.
Employers only pay for the time needed and can make bookings with extraordinary efficiency at the best market rate.
After extensive research and piloting, Slivers-of-Time is now available to any employer in the UK.