Dr Sue Black's presentation about the amazing tech heritage we have in the UK and why we need to get everyone in the UK more tech savvy to enable innovation and thus a better UK economy.
11. The key technologies impacting business over the
next 5 years:
Mobile
Cloud
Social
Information
The UK’s ICT sector is the largest in Europe and
expected to grow to over £29B by 2012.
The combined creative industries and ICT sectors
employ 3 million people.
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13. Increased Inspiring tech
Standard
of living
The
Tech savvy
people
Flourishing
economy
Effect
Tech savvy
Productive Startups and
organisations businesses
14. <goto>’s aims are to excite, engage, empower and enlighten.
The <goto> Foundation aspires to rebrand computer science, raise
public awareness and knowledge of technology, and enable everyone to
use, benefit from and enjoy the powerful computing systems in our lives
today.
The <goto> Foundation will catalyse rapid change in these areas,
through direct strategic action.
We want to bring together existing projects, people and organisations
working in this field – we’re not reinventing the wheel – and <goto> will
collaborate and connect groups with the individuals and resources they
need to operate most effectively.
At the same time, <goto> is attempting something new and unique – to
raise the profile of technology with the general public through national
scale campaigns and events, taking computer science outreach
beyond schools and making it relevant to people’s everyday lives.
15.
16. Come and talk
to me
Dr Sue Black
sueblack@gmail.com @gotofdn
sue@gotofdn.org
www.sueblack.co.uk gotofdn.org
Hinweis der Redaktion
We need to get people in the UK much more hands on with technology and increase their tech savvy
Steve Shirley is a great UK Tech heroine! Have you heard of her?
Dina St Johnston is another UK tech heroine….have you heard of her? Why don’t we celebrate the amazing tech heros that we have in this country?
Where was the first cashpoint installed? Cashpoints are an example of tech that works almost 100% of the time, we need to show the UK that we have technology all around us that improves our standard of living. Computer says YES! Not Computer says No.
We have some amazing projects in the UK, that promote tech and computing, @londonhackspace is an example of a very exciting grass roots project. There are hackspaces all over the country, find your local one and go visit
There are loads of projects now in the UK and elsewhere. Let’s work together to get the UK in pole position in the tech sector.
I believe .... That most people in the UK have a negative attitude towards technology: big govt IT projects, MS Word, Computer says No! That if people understood how much tech has improved their standard of living: cashpoints, mobiles, logistics, cars, washing machines etc and how key it is for innovation to occur And Were helped to feel that they could have a go themselves thus demystifying it We would have a good chance of being a key player in the 2015 global marketplace.
Worldeconomy is growing Shift in power from west to east The west dont get it ....yet Youth unemployment in UK = 1 million 20% school leavers cannot read/write In India tablets being given to 5 million students Here we are just deciding that we might need computing in the curriculum
For country to be successful it needs: Cash Commodities Creativity We only have Creativity
Main things impacting business over next 5 years: Mobile, internet, cloud, social, information So, important for us to be a player in the global marketplace we need to stake our claim in the future. To do that we need tech savvy/tech friendly population, to maximise our chances of producing tech enabled companies, exploiting UK creativity
Now digital revolution, we led during industrial revolution, we can be a key player in the digital revolution, but we need to get our skates on. Tech savvy/literate public is key to maximising the opportunity we now have.
The <goto> Effect…..This is why we need everyone in the UK to be more tech savvy…
The aims of the <goto> Foundation
Watch the video about #gototech our first @gotofdn event aimed at getting 7-9 year old kids excited about computer science, the result was 90 inspired children plus many inspired teachers and parents
Please get in touch if you can help…sue@gotofdn.org