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Living Labs Global Awards Update

07 May 2012 by HeatherNiven

The last week has been pretty amazing!  Neil (from the council) and I have been busy bees here in Rio after a hectic few weeks beforehand pulling together the NESTA phase 2 bid for the second phase of the Creative Councils programme.

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Is it Time to Think About Bringing Work Back to the UK?

01 May 2012 by yorkiementor

BCG report sparks debate in ‘reshoring’ or ‘backsourcing’

Posted on the yorkiementor blog 1st May 2012

Open Data – Making Publicly Held Data Available to All

30 April 2012 by yorkiementor

Posted on the yorkiementor blog 30th April 2012

Governments hold an enormous amount of data which has considerable commercial value were it accessible to entrepreneurial, commercially-driven companies – an opportunity for growth!

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GeniUS! - <YOUR CITY NAME GOES HERE>

11 April 2012 by HeatherNiven

Posted on the Knowledge Hub website Wednesday 11th April 2012

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Contracts Finder – Public Sector Procurement

28 March 2012 by yorkiementor

Posted on the yorkiementor blog 28th March 2012

This is what the government says:

Introduce an Environmental Management System? Forget it! I am an SME

22 March 2012 by yorkiementor

However admirable the ISO standards are, they are feared by any SME – complex, time consuming, costly ………… and, frankly, a way to line the pockets of the ‘standards community’. ISO 14000, ISO14001 ISO 14004 … the myriad of ISO14000 standards and information related to environmental management.

Osborne to Axe or Reform the Carbon Reduction Commitment – Simplifying Business

21 March 2012 by yorkiementor

CRC has not made life easy for the 20,000 businesses required to collect and report data and commit to an energy management strategy ……… details of the DECC CRC scheme are here –> click here.

Recognising the complexity of the scheme introduced by the last government, Osborne said the following in his budget speech today:

GeniUS It Is! City of York Council

20 March 2012 by yorkiementor

A simple solution ……. a success story! GeniUS! SCY and City of York Council have been nominated for a living labs global award for their proposal to pilot the GeniUS! York community innovation scheme in Cape Town, South Africa.

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CloudStore: IT Procurement by the Public Sector – HM Government Attempts to Simplify the Process

20 March 2012 by yorkiementor

What is the CloudStore?

The Government has been working to simplify the purchasing of public sector ICT an improve the transparency of the purchasing process.  An impossible task, you would think, with years of pontification and inaction regarding making the process simple and accessible to SMEs in the UK.

There is now a beta-website, called the CloudStore –> click here.

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