The Digital High Street 2020 Report makes four principal recommendations that are critical to the revitalisation of our high streets in the impending digitally dominated world: 1) Sufficient access through infrastructure 2) Basic Digital Skills 3) High Street Digital Lab 4) High Street Digital Health Index The Digital High Street 2020 Report concludes that “unless…
Intelligent Mobility is the hidden innovation that will be behind so many improvements to transport service in and between our towns and cities. Want to know more? This Traveller Needs study from the Government-backed technology and innovation centre for intelligent mobility, the Future of Transport Systems Catapult, is a good place to start. Intelligent mobility brings…
The Nationwide BIDs Survey 2016 gives a comprehensive overview of the ballot process, finances, governance and policy role of BIDS in the United Kingdom. The survey includes data for 216 of the 227 active BIDs and was published by British BIDs. Here we focus on the data from the report that tells us more about…
The uses of this 2016 survey of BIDs nationwide are multiple. The survey’s authors outline how it holds up a mirror for the BID industry to look at itself by enabling: an annual snapshot to be taken of the BID community in the UK and Ireland for policy makers; chief executives of BIDs to benchmark themselves against…
I love the quote -so true! This report produced by the Institute of Place Management is a must-read for anybody involved in influencing High Street vitality and viability. This report outlines how town centre managers should focus on the factors identified as ‘micro’ that impact on vitality and viability. These are the factors that could…
Is public wi-fi worth it? With the well-publicised failure of wi-fi schemes in towns like Swindon, plenty of people are asking whether the provision of public wi-fi is worth the effort. In this guest blog, Wendy Riley from Real Towns takes a closer look at public wi-fi and assures us that yes, it’s money well…
I wanted to find out how easy it is to share the love for markets on-line. Hopefully most markets have a Facebook page but fewer I found have a presence on Tripadvisor. Like me, many of you probably use Tripadvisor to find out about where to eat, stay or visit when going to a…
Tomorrow’s Digital High Street is to be road tested on the streets of Gloucester and Cheltenham as part of a Government-backed programme to bring our town centres on-line. The digital high street programme is led by John Walden CEO of Home Retail Group, owner of Argos, with support from executives at IBM, Boots UK, Cisco, Google,…