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From hosting the Smartest Street in the UK with Cisco, to partnering school children with Newcastle University researchers to measure air quality in their neighbourhood what’s smart about Digital Newcastle is how we’re driving open and transparent collaboration across the public, private and academic sectors to improve outcomes for people.

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Webinar Recording: Newcastle – What makes a smart city?

November 2019

By 2030 it is expected that nearly 5 billion (61%) of the world’s 8.1 billion people will live in cities. This growing trend of urbanisation will lead to increasing strains being put on city services in the years to come. It is therefore vital to […]

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Artificial Intelligence, cities and climate change

November 2019

It’s clear that a lot of action to reduce emissions and climate change will play out in urban areas, where most people in the world live, and an even higher proportion of economic activity happens. Save the city, save the world. But it’s hard to […]

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Where next for the Smartest City of the Year?

August 2019

June 20th, 2019.  It was a great night.  A fantastic celebration of digital transformation across the public, private and third sector at the DL100 Awards, with inspirational acceptance speeches galore.  And for Newcastle, the cherry on the cake, beating off impressive competition to scoop the […]

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Webinar Recording: Innovation in Chatbots

June 2019

The innovative use of chatbots has transformed the way that Newcastle City Council interacts with the public. These bots are improving the customer experience and reducing costs, and include: Wastebot – delivering an improvement in processing times from 14 days to 90 seconds and 100% […]

The big digital priority for charities in 2019 should be services

January 2019

Last year was an amazing year for charity digital. But for many organisations there’s still a way to go. Charity digital is no longer a ‘nice to have’ or niche idea. Over the last year, we’ve seen reports from the likes of Skills Platform, TechTrust, the Weston Charity […]

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Emerging Tech in the North East

January 2019

On Monday 14 January, Dynamo North East ran an Emerging Tech event in partnership with PROTO, where we invited Gateshead tech companies to share their knowledge of emerging tech across a variety of sectors. Although the discussions were high level in order to stimulate conversations later […]

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