Liz Reid/Andrew Tate from Gateshead City Council - a case study: bringing NGA to the Baltic Business Quarter. NextGen Roadshows 2009

1. Andrew Tate
Economic Development
Manager

4. High level of jobs in: Knowledge based Industries:
• manufacturing,
•engineering, • Lowest proportion in Tyne and Wear
•public sector • 6% short of national average

6. Six Big Ideas Improvement Targets
More people
City of Gateshead
Global Gateshead More diversity
Creative Gateshead Better qualifications
Sustainable Gateshead
Active & Healthy Gateshead Better jobs
Gateshead Volunteers Better economic activity

7. Opportunity matched
with
what modern businesses want

8. World Class minimum:
Resilient fibre-optic/wireless
Effectively unlimited capacity
Multiple suppliers
Low cost international connections
Choice of management services
Simple and low cost upgrade capability

9. Getting buy-in
Justifying in policy terms
Securing funding
Not technical experts
Finding the right partner
Finding the right solution

10. Procurement
Competitive Dialogue
Joint Venture
Other benefits

11. •World class communications
infrastructure
•Designed to give highest levels
of resilience
•Capable of flexible and tailored
services
•Meets needs of businesses
•Fair and open access to all service
•providers
•Business case

12. Insanity: “doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.”
Einstein