BCE

Podcast: SMEs and the digital divide

Jane Charlton — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:28:15 +0000

Jane Charlton and Simon Whittemore from JISC attended the ALT-C pre-conference workshop on small businesses and the digital divide. The workshop was attended by conference delegates and representatives from Yorkshire and Humberside’s business community. Yorkshire Forward, Yorkshire and Humberside’s Regional Development Agency, gave some context to the workshop discussions by presenting the findings from their 2008 ICT Regional Benchmarking Study report. Digital 20/10 is an initiative of Yorkshire Forward, responsible for the successful development of digital skills in the region. Its successor, Digital 20/20 is a collaboration between major ICT businesses, the public sector and skills providers in the region tasked with increasing ICT adoption across all sectors from the public sector through to business and the general public.
In this podcast Jane Charlton speaks to Robert Ling from Yorkshire Forward, David Kay of Sero Consulting who manages the Digital20/10 initiative and Simon Whittemore, the Programme Manager of Business and Community Engagement for JISC.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/11/podcast62thedigitaldivide.aspx

BCE session at JISC 08

Hector Peebles — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:54:44 +0000

[notes by Louisa Dale]

Simon Whittemore opened a session addressing the barriers to Business and Community Engagement: defined as ‘the strategic management of interactions, partnerships and transactions external to the institution.

Perhaps interesting that the public sector currently remains the most significant proportion of an (education) institution’s external engagement.

Business and community engagement professionals need solutions to broker knowledge transfer / exchange and professionals.

JISC’s innovation programme aims to enhance institutions’ efficiency, effectiveness and opportunities and help institutions overcome the barries to access to institutional knowledge assests for business and community organisations.

With significant political drivers, not least supported by the creation of DIUS, there are challenges for institutions. Cultural change, new skills and support services (contact and information management) are required to support employer engagement and to encourage the exploitation of research innovation.

Jason Campbell spoke on behalf of JISC Legal, which supports the higher education sector in understanding the legal issues related to the use of technology. JISC comissioned a study (now available) into the legal barriers (or better still opportunities being missed) to exploit institutional assets for the purposes of business and community engagement.

Open surgery 31 March-4 April for BCE Circular

Simon Whittemore — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:53:37 +0000

The online surgery is open from 31 March-4 April. Questions and comments about the Circular can be submitted after that date but will be answered when possible rather than within the same day.

The surgery is open……awaiting your questions

Simon Whittemore — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:53:10 +0000

Please feel free to submit any questions and comments regarding the BCE Circular and the calls for funding or indeed regading JISC BCE in general. We aim to respond to your question within a few hours; at the least the response will be same-day.

Welcome to the BCE Programme online surgery.

Simon Whittemore — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:29:08 +0000

Welcome all - this is where you can post your questions and comments regarding JISC Business and Community Engagement (BCE). Initially this is designed to capture and disseminate questions and answers in relation to the JISC Circular 3/08 for Business and Community Engagement, which invites proposals in the areas of CRM, Employer Enagagement and Access Management.