A Champion visit to Bristol

Martha Lane Fox visited Bristol at the end of July at the invitation of DC10plus founder member Connecting Bristol. The  Digital Inclusion Champion and co-founder of LastMinute.com made the trip to find out more about the city’s work on Digital Inclusion and to help formulate ideas for the Government’s new Digital Inclusion Task Force, which she Chairs.

During the course of the vist Martha met with the Council’s Chief Exec and Leader, Bristol Media, Futurelab, i-Shed, Pure Ability, Bristol Wireless and other DC10 colleagues, she was shown the Council House, the Watershed and Knowle West Media Centre..

At Knowle West Media Centre the  Neighbourhood Carbon Makeover, Knowle West Web and South Bristol Digital Neighbourhoods projects were highlighted.

The visit was seen as an opportunity for conversation and debate and the young people from e-Shed filmed a short video interview with Martha and with Barbara Janke the Leader of Bristol City Concil, part of which can be seen here (a fuller DVD will be available from Connecting Bristol and the Knowle West Media Centre.