DRAFT The Greater Manchester Digital Blueprint 8 November, 2019
This is the digital place… … with a fast-growing £5bn digital eco-system , where communities, business, academia and public services work together to create opportunity, innovate and invent; and where growth benefits everybody. … where businesses of all types and sizes can come and thrive , benefiting from top-level physical infrastructure, and a highly-skilled, ready-to-go digital workforce. Andy Burnham Mayor of Greater … where digital connectivity makes things better for Manchester people, where a lack of digital skills is never a barrier to social mobility and employment, and public services are intuitive, joined up and available to all. … that makes things happen , driven by a clear civic vision, Cllr Elise Wilson leadership and mandate that fosters collaboration and enables Leader of Stockport Council, everyone to do well and lead fulfilled lives. GMCA Digital Portfolio Lead Elected Member This is the place that does digital differently .
Home of the We want our citizens’ lives to This Greater be bettered, and for them to Manchester Digital empowered by the myriad of digital citizen Blueprint – an update opportunities a digitally-fuelled of the 2018 Greater city-region provides. Manchester Digital Alongside this, businesses Strategy – places here will have the digital Greater Manchester’s means and culture to fuel people firmly at the productivity, conscientious innovation, entrepreneurism heart of our plans. and new industries. Our ambition is for Greater Manchester be a top five European digital city-region and recognised globally for its digital innovation. This document sets out a three year approach, and will be reviewed regularly in line with the pace of digital change.
A place where anything digital is possible We’re investing heavily in Greater Manchester is already home to the largest digital digital infrastructure, and creative cluster outside of London. connectivity and transport and we offer a breadth and depth of expertise across The digital, creative and Right now Greater digital and creative services, drawing vast tech sectors are the fastest Manchester has over ecommerce, technology international hardware and software. growing sector in our recognition, city-region, with almost and employing 10,000 We’re creating a digital more than £5bn place where innovators 85,000 from across the globe want to tap into and a people place where businesses of economic activity with new, brilliant digital and already here can thrive. high-value jobs being creative businesses generated each year.
UK Tech Town Index 2019 No. The best places in the UK for IT pros to live and work 1 Manchester Source: CompTIA UK Tech Towns Index 2019 Who’s hiring IT pros? 1. National Health Service 2. TalkTalk Telecom Group 3. University of Manchester 4. The Hut Group Limited 5. IBM Corporation 1.3 6. Co-operative Group Limited Expected growth in IT jobs over the next 7. KPMG year with 700 new positions to be added 8. Raytheon UK 9. Manchester Metropolitan University 10. Lloyd’s Banking Group
A pioneering powerhouse – accelerating investment For 250 years, Greater Manchester has been at the forefront of revolutionary ideas to create and shape the future and is the birthplace of the first stored program computer and the world’s first commercial computer. And we continue to pioneer, hosting a thriving eco-system of businesses; from start-ups, social enterprises and home-grown companies to those valued at or near £1 billion underpinning an impressive strength “A Manchester presence will enable and depth to our economy. us to be at the heart of the North's budding tech scene, in amongst some of the fastest- Sitting side-by-side in the city- region’s growing tech businesses in the country.” creative and digital clusters, incubators Marc Waters, Managing Director, UK and Ireland, Hewlitt Packard Enterprises . and co-working spaces, organisations of all kinds converge, collaborate and drive innovation and social impact.
Collaborating more for a competitive advantage Greater Manchester has a vibrant events scene, in fact we get together more than any other UK city outside of London. In Greater Manchester we have 60 including 9 co-working accelerator spaces programmes Our city- region’s tech eco -system is inherently human and made up of entrepreneurs, innovators, enthusiasts and innovators from multiple sectors. Collaboration is the glue that sticks us together. Our ‘social city’ region creates competitive advantage for our tech sector, energising thought, creativity, building networks and fuelling innovation. Although other major cities host events across a similarly broad set of areas, they do not have the depth of innovation meetups seen in Manchester with technical innovators working together on cross-border Meetup density in GB tech clusters . digital projects and solutions. Source: https://technation.io/report2019/#20- people-in-tech
Building eco-systems that deliver: GM Cyber Since 2017 Greater Manchester has created the UK’s fastest -growing cyber eco-system a 30 member collaboration set up for common benefit and the sharing of expertise. Four universities, Greater Manchester Police, GMCA, the NHS and leading private sector organisations have come together to help drive the Cyber Security industry towards contributing £500m to the regional economy.
Our digital priorities
A clearer focus 1 Empowering Our priorities have evolved for this 2 people Enabling refreshed Greater Manchester Digital innovative Blueprint, and are now more clearly public services focused on delivering benefits that 3 Digitally help the city- region’s people lead enabling all healthier, happier lives. businesses 4 Each of our five digital priorities – developed with Creating and scaling the input of key stakeholders - are supported by 5 digital pan Greater Manchester public sector projects. Being a businesses These combine with inclusive community, local global digital authority, private, not-for-profit and academic influencer work. A Our plan connects the wealth of digital change Strengthening our that’s going on, and will help us reach a shared digital talent pipeline ambition that underpins and enables both the Local Industrial Strategy and the Greater Manchester Strategy. B Extending our world class digital infrastructure
1. Empowering people KEY PROJECTS We want to ensure that everyone in Greater Early Years Digitisation (GMCA) Manchester, whatever their age, location or situation, can benefit from the opportunities Integrated Digital Healthcare Records digital brings. (GMHSCP) Our plans: Smart Resident • Offering digital access to public services that is joined (GMCA and GMHSCP) up, user-friendly and makes sense • Get GM Digital Making sure everyone can get online to access public (GMCA and partners) services within their community • Helping everyone to be confident internet users • Get GM Digital (GMCA and partners) Helping people avoid internet harms like online fraud • Giving plentiful opportunity to feedback, recognising the importance to people that their voices are heard Connecting and enabling • Guaranteeing security and privacy of the systems that hold activity across the eco-system public data – people should have absolute confidence in Locality projects and private, not-for- what’s happening to their information. profit and academic initiatives Cross-cutting work on skills and infrastructure
KEY PROJECT Giving children the best possible start in life through digital innovation We are fully digitising early years developmental records right across our ten boroughs, helping us better track progress of our youngest citizens and provide better quality support for parents. New streamlined digital systems will connect over 800 Greater Manchester professionals like health visitors, school health staff and childrens ’ services teams, enabling them to work together and deliver care that supports the whole family.
2. Enabling innovative public services KEY PROJECTS We want to apply exemplar digital ideas and GM Information Sharing Strategy practice to delivering public services in Greater (GMCA) Manchester, linking innovative business, GM Data Strategy/Office of Data academic and public sector thinking with the Analytics (GMCA) needs of Greater Manchester’s people . Smart Ticketing (TfGM) Our plans: • Fostering innovation by proactively engaging with best digital practice to solve local problems NHS Digital Fund (GMHSCP) • Using data responsibly and effectively to improve decision making, and support those people most in need GM Cyber and Resilience (GMCA and • Linking key initiatives and re-using digital assets and GMP) investments • Making non-personal data open by default where it is of Connecting and enabling value to the people of Greater Manchester activity across the eco-system • Ensuring digital services are consistently available and Locality projects and private, not-for- resilient, with clear contingency plans profit and academic initiatives • Providing open, transparent information on how we are progressing towards these aims and how decision are being Cross-cutting work on skills and made. infrastructure
Recommend
More recommend
