by Roy Reynolds | May 10, 2023 | Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Economy, Smart places
Roy Reynolds is CIO at VCG Technology Services in Stockport, a managed service provider supporting businesses in their technology and business transformation journey. In 2025, the UK’s telephony infrastructure will enter a new era as the nation’s biggest operator...
by Adrian Davies | Oct 31, 2022 | Architecture, Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Following the great work on the Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) project, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have now announced the exciting next steps to light up the fibre with a state-of-the-art, high-performance data network – the GM One Network. In...
by Tom Ward | Oct 28, 2022 | Architecture, Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Background Twenty years ago, most commercial and residential users accessed the internet over the UK’s ageing network of copper wire-based telephone circuits. Due to the technology involved, copper circuits could only work at slow or very slow speeds...
by Helen Johnson | Mar 7, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport, Smart places
This week’s Digital City Festival will once again bring thought-leaders from around the world to Greater Manchester, this time to address the key challenges as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. There’s a great line-up of interesting keynote speeches and...
by Craig Hughes | Jun 4, 2021 | Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Stockport has launched a new open data platform called the “The Big Stockport Picture”. It is a borough wide platform for people from across the Stockport Partnership (Health, Council, Stockport Homes etc.) to share and publish information, providing more transparency...
by Cllr Elise Wilson | Mar 6, 2020 | Collaboration, Smart places
In this blog, first published by Health Innovation Manchester on 21st February 2020, Councillor Elise Wilson, Leader of Stockport Council and the GMCA’s Digital City Region Lead, looks at the work being done in Greater Manchester to create a new digital platform to...
