{"id":1754,"date":"2012-10-08T02:11:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T01:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2012-10-28T02:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T01:15:12","slug":"nextgen12-8-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"NextGen12 &#8211; 8 October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/brian_condon\/nextgen12.js\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/brian_condon\/nextgen12\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;NextGen12&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h1>NextGen12<\/h1>\n<h2>Towards the digital economy<\/h2>\n<p>Storified by Brian_Condon &middot; Tue, Oct 09 2012 01:39:22<\/p>\n<div>This is a Storify around the NextGen 12 Conference in The City of Westminster, London.  I&#8217;m chairing the conference and will also try to keep content moving into the Storify. <\/div>\n<div>Lorne Mitchell tells a story (an allegory) at #nextgen12  twitpic.com\/b27o8kBrian_Condon<\/div>\n<div>I am at #NextGen12 today. Looking forward to Chairing a session on broadband policy. Good line up over the next 2 days!<\/div>\n<div>Listening to a fireside story from @lornemitchell at #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>Listening to a story from Lorne Mitchell at #NextGen12.  Hilarious.<\/div>\n<div>#nextgen12 Find 10 of Spades, 5 of Spades, 2 of Spades, Queen of Hearts, Queen of Diamonds, Ace of Clubs and the Joker to win today&#8217;s prize!<\/div>\n<div>Peter Cochrane on stage at #NextGen12 pic.twitter.com\/reW5W86bB4theRuralSouth<\/div>\n<div>Listening to Peter Cochrane OBE talk bandwidth and the future of data demand #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>Peter is going for the bigger picture and looking at what it means for the way we produce products and services. 3D printing is about shipping designs not shipping products. <\/div>\n<div>#NextGen12. Peter Cochrane. Stellar show: take-away-&quot;without hi-speed intelligence, we`re dead&quot;. Build better future bottom-up.<\/div>\n<div>#NextGen12. PeterCochrane. next tech hot-spot= intersection of nano_AI+IT+Bio&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>At NextGen conf, Prof Peter Cochrane -time to wake-up + stop sweating the small stuff, gear-shift thinking + change is needed #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>#NextGen12. PeterCochrane. User-Generated Design+ 3-D print= `Open Hardware`&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>Peter Cochrane makes a good point re the west stumbling into the future with no plan. At #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>#NextGen12. PeterCochrane. Europe is (unlike Asia) on a random walk into the future. we can have vision, mission, plan too!<\/div>\n<div>The need to stop talking and start doing driven home at #NextGen12. How did we end up with the mess that is BDUK?<\/div>\n<div>RT @paulinerigby: RT @paulinerigby: Broadband: never have so many talked so long with so little effect &#8211; to paraphrase @PeterCochrane @ #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>RT @hugopickering: RT @hugopickering: Peter Cochrane makes a good point re the west stumbling into the future with no plan. At #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>@hugopickering #NextGen12 there is a plan, peter doesn&#8217;t like it, which is his right<\/div>\n<div>&quot;Fibre to home is futureproof and as much funding as possible should be devoted to it,&quot; says Karin Ahl of FTTH Council Europe #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>@Watchingtheflow Your plan Bill. Patching up the old phone network to protect your investment is Not Good Plan #nextgen12 #da12bb<\/div>\n<div>#nextgen12 &#8216;Big plan is to cover the whole area&#8217; Karin Ali. This means fibre, not copper phone lines. Say no to #fttc stopgaps.<\/div>\n<div>&quot;For every 1,000 new FTTH end users 80 new jobs are created,&quot; says Karin Ahl of FTTH Council Europe #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>Live blog #NextGen12 here http:\/\/t.co\/TXI2tDIw<\/div>\n<div>FT reports that DG Comp is ready to approve BDUK State Aid.  Maybe @eurohumph will give an update at #nextgen12.  Who blinked?<\/div>\n<div>NextGen Events :: NextGen 12 &#8211; 8 &amp; 9 October 2012 :: Live webcast from NextGen 12The UK&#8217;s independent focus for next generation broadband transformation as an essential foundation for economic growth, innovation and easier development.<\/div>\n<div>#nextgen12 Prysmian&#8217;s Richard Thomas says biggest consumer of optical fiber is mobile not access &#8211; China Mobile doing fibre to the antenna.<\/div>\n<div>Richard Thomas Prysmian Group presentation available for download #NextGen12 http:\/\/t.co\/kqTjduTU + live http:\/\/t.co\/m3zBluvo<\/div>\n<div>Peter Cochrane said &quot;stop talking and start building&quot;; hearing from Richard Thomas, Prysmian about project in Almond in Scotland #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>RT @helenmilner: RT @helenmilner: Liv Garfield up now at #nextgen12 RT @finalninth: @nextgen12 The Queen of Hearts is on!<\/div>\n<div>Liv Garfield up now at #nextgen12 RT @finalninth: @nextgen12 The Queen of Hearts is on!<\/div>\n<div>RT @cyberdoyle: RT @cyberdoyle: Fibre on demand to rural areas not available. cos we aint got cabinets. so we stay on dial up?  #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>Liv Garfield says no one needs more than 24 MB &#8211; can&#8217;t generate more than that from a family #nextgen12  twitpic.com\/b29n7mBrian_Condon<\/div>\n<div>BT are hiring former forces personel in Open Reach #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>Good! Liv Garfield says fibre in the great is no good unless people use it &#8211; growth for businesses and for communities #NextGen12 #BT<\/div>\n<div>@brian_condon Please could she tell my kids that? #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>@ClaireatWaves she said that they can&#8217;t re-create or simulate the conditions or uses more than total of 24mbps per household. #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>Liv Garfield says BT is the only global company who is able to physically and commercially deliver fibre #NextGen12<\/div>\n<div>@helenmilner Liv is a great speaker, but she believes the hype. Copper is not the future. #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>\ud83d\ude42  thx to @kat_braybrooke @brian_condon &amp; #nextgen12 audience for great discussion re importance of digital inclusion &amp; transparency. @OKFN<\/div>\n<div>Really enjoyed the @kat_braybrooke and @helenmilner discussion at #NextGen12 &#8211; some delegates looked a bit scared I thought! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s ok though, we&#8217;re now back on more comfortable ground talking cloud and wireless infrastructure. #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>Nicholas James talking about mobile broadband for tenants &#8211; as the best solution #NextGen12 #digihousing<\/div>\n<div>RT @kat_braybrooke: RT @kat_braybrooke: for more info re: the apps I referenced in #nextgen12 #digitalinclusion panel just now, links: @OKFN @openspending @ &#8230;<\/div>\n<div>@danielheery sits in the balcony #nextgen12 under a sign that says &#8216;unfading splendour&#8217; ! pic.twitter.com\/9cVinY4kBrian_Condon<\/div>\n<div>A lovely symmetry talking about future tech in beautiful old building MT @brian_condon: &#8216;unfading splendour&#8217; pic.twitter.com\/GKV0eIw8 #NextGen12helen milner<\/div>\n<div>#nextgen12 The Joker in the pack which looks like a Brussels Sprout (with his rules on State Aid) continue to dominate the debate!<\/div>\n<div>@brian_condon is sitting under banner &quot;true light&quot; exactly what his insightful chairing deliver ing at #nextgen12 pic.twitter.com\/ayQsf7T3danielheery<\/div>\n<div>@sivangr @openspending @schoolofdata i was mentioning apps + initiatives by @okfn that promote digital inclusion + literacy at #nextgen12 \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div>@hokulele glad you enjoyed &#8211; was interesting (&amp; important!) discussion. would like to hear more about your work! cc @helenmilner #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>RT @kat_braybrooke: I was mentioning apps + initiatives by @OKFN that promote digital inclusion + literacy at #nextgen12 \ud83d\ude09 (@SchoolofData)<\/div>\n<div>Then we split into 2 sessions running in parallel<\/div>\n<div>&quot;From Oxford Tweet to Leicester Share&quot; session kicking off at #NextGen12 &#8211; all about how Westminster worked with O2 on free WiFi<\/div>\n<div>O2 wifi in Westminster biggest outdoor free wifi in Europe #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>#nextgen12 Listening to Wesminster City Council and O2 talk about their WiFi project @ruckuswireless<\/div>\n<div>There&#8217;s quite a bit of Tweeting from the rural broadband session<\/div>\n<div>Scream if you want to go faster &#8211; rural broadband workshop streaming live from 4.30pm at join in at http:\/\/t.co\/j5kdeg4y #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>#nextgen12 standing room only in Cambrian rural broadband break-out!<\/div>\n<div>Joker Brussels Sprout thinking on Fixed Wireless networks being discussed at #nextgen12 rural broadband break-out<\/div>\n<div>Licenced or Unlicenced for fixed wireless rural networks? That is the question at #nextgen12 breakout on rural broadband.<\/div>\n<div>Fixed wireless quite capable of providing 35Mbps NGA with 40 years mean time before failure at #nextgen12 breakout on rural broadband<\/div>\n<div>Hearing about allpay (wireless broadband) on the church towers in #Herefordshire at #NextGen12  How is it being used?<\/div>\n<div>Church of England enlightened by supporting wireless schemes in from churches in Herefordshire, Norfolk &amp; Kent! Elegant circle at #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>No whisky yet from Daniel Heery championing #fieryspirits at #nextgen12.<\/div>\n<div>@danielheery outlining challenges for rural broadband schemes: weather, powercuts, coordination, &amp; finance are some at #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>@danielheery outlining challenges for rural broadband schemes: weather, powercuts, coordination, &amp; finance are some at #nextgen12<\/div>\n<div>Knave of Diamonds all over the place at #nextgen12. 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