I talked to the Dundee Tech Meetup folks about Code Club, the mobile opportunity and the Internet of Things

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Rod Burns
Wireless Industry Partnership
http://www.wipconnector.com

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Code Club – Why?
 Give every child in the UK the chance to learn to code.
 It is our aim to have Code Club in 25% of primary schools in
the UK by the end of 2014
 Our economy will rely on innovation through technology
 The kids have a lot of fun!

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Code Club – What is it?
http://scratch.mit.edu/
 Using Scratch to teach 9-10 year old kids
how to make simple games
 Set of learning materials with 10 projects
for the kids to complete
 More advanced materials are being
produced that use programming languages

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Code Club – volunteering!
Get a Code Club set up at your local school!
http://www.codeclub.org.uk/
DCA is looking for help clive.gillman@dca.org.uk

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Mobile – the opportunity
In 2011 smart phone sales
overtook PC sales Mobile to overtake fixed
Internet access by 2014
488 million smart phones
415 million PCs Source: Microsoft Tag
Source: Canalysis
Mobile ad spending
12% of workers in the US doubled to $1.2 billion in
already use a tablet at work H1 2012
Source: Forrester
Source: Internet Advertising Bureau

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Mobile – and you have no choice
31 million active Android and iOS
devices out of 61 million in UK 74% of total UK 15-64 population
using smart devices
Android dominates markets

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Don’t know where to start?

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What is the Internet of Things?

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Connected Mobile devices
 In
2008 the number of things connected to
the internet exceeded the number of people
on Earth
 By 2015 there will be 15 billion, by 2020 50 billion
 These things are not just phones and tablets
 Smart connected devices generated $489
billion in 2011

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Prototyping
$20
$2100
$25

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The opportunity for you! $1.3m
raised
$622k
raised
$355k raised
so far

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Thank You for listening!
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