Yinchuan is one of the world’s leading smart cities. This growing, modern city has much in common with Milton Keynes. Host to the TMForumInFocus international conference with over 1000 delegates from over 66 countries, Yinchuan already boasts a range of smart city initiatives that include air quality, traffic and healthcare. KMi’s Alan Fletcher addressed this…
The Barcelona based World Smart City Congress, a key annual event for Urban Innovation, has judged MK:Smart to be a great example of applied innovation derived from collaborative endeavour. Alan Fletcher, KMi business development manager, Peter Marland, Leader of MK Council and Geoff Snelson, director of strategy Milton Keynes Council were delighted to accept the…
KMi joins three-month feasibility study on how to empower citizens with their own data. Five organisations have come together to run a three-month feasibility study to explore how to empower citizens with their own data. The miData Studio initiative is a collaboration between the Open University ( KMi and MCT) and: Milton Keynes Council Ctrl-Shift …
At the 2014 Joint Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School (JTELSS) in Malta KMi collaborated with the TELL-Me project partner VTT to design and deliver this year’s JTELSS Million Dollar Challenge, requiring students to work with the ARGH! augmented reality platform. The Million Dollar Challenge is a KMi workshop designed to support doctoral students in the…
Professor Enrico Motta, Project Director of MK:SMART led a delegation of project partners to an informal exchange of ideas with the Glasgow Future Cities Initiative this week. After some interesting updates on the progress, opportunities and challenges faced by the Glasgow initiative and an introduction to the scope of the MK:SMART project, the conversation centred…
KMi has long been associated with the East of England Broadband Network, helping E2bN deliver FlashMeeting videoconferencing and the Making the News schools’ journalism portal to all of the primary and secondary education providers in the E2bN area. As part of this ongoing relationship KMi’s Dr Peter Scott and Alan Fletcher delivered key workshops at…
The annual HRD Conference of the CIPD at Olympia, London is the largest UK Training and Development event of its kind and KMi’s Alan Fletcher hosted the ‘Learning Technologies of the Future’ presentation The conference, which included over 30 sessions across two days invited industry and education experts and HR professionals to share their knowledge…
A joint KMi and OU library team today hosted a tailored series of workshops in KMi that was designed to explore the future face of the OU library. The workshop participants, all of whom gave extremely positive feedback about the event, were from across the board within the library. Participants were encouraged to explore the…
In collaboration with key European education and commercial partners, The Open Universitys Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) will be leading the way in an additional five EU funded consortia to develop a variety of information technology initiatives over the next four years, all ultimately designed to increase computing, business and education efficiency. Already well represented and…
The final of the RCUK Business Plan Competition 2008 was held on the 20th October at Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea Football Club. KMis Alan Fletcher was there to represent the competition entry for the FlashMeeting project and FM technologies, running an exhibition stand with live demos of FM and Hexagon for the assembled…
