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ITaaU Community

Conference Hilton

Chilworth Southampton SO16 3NG

19 June 2014

Dr John Baird Lead, RCUK Digital Economy

Theme and lead for Cybersecurity in the Global Uncertainties Theme

[email protected] Tel: +44(0)1793 444047


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Aim to cover 3 things

Intro to the RCUK DE Theme: what is it, why it was established and what it has done Evidence for success for the approach: some examples of impact and evidence from the DE Impact Review Where’s it all going? Need to make the case for the value of RC funding across and between disciplines

DE: we couldn’t have done it without him


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The Digital Economy Offers huge potential returns for doing business

RCUK DE


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But new ways of doing things digital are not welcomed by everyone

Black-cab drivers brought part of London to a stand-still in protest against Uber

The cabbies ain’t appy in this fare fight – Sunday Times 8 June 2014


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DE Theme vision – interdisciplinarity is key: “Technology alone is not enough”

“It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing” Steve Jobs introducing the iPad2 Could have been describing DE Theme with its focus on interdisciplinarity

DE Vision: Rapidly realise the transformational impact of digital technologies on aspects of community life, cultural experiences, future society, and the economy.


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The DE approach Applied interdisciplinary research –strong user engagement and co-creation to address societally relevant issues. e.g. designers working with social scientists, psychologists, economists & computer scientists to solve DE challenges.

Co-creation approach. (users, society, business and/or government)

Three Research Council Partners.

(£106M); (£12M); (£11M) 113 core projects >£150M since 2008, 400 User Partners


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DE Research Delivered through four challenge areas

The main DE investments - 1

3 Digital Economy Hubs (£12M each incl. £2M partnership funding & gearing) Horizon, Nottingham Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy, Newcastle and Dundee dot.rural, Aberdeen

10 Centres for Doctoral Training (£5M each + gearing; 100 students p.a.) My Life in Data, Nottingham Digital Entertainment, Bath & Bournemouth Intelligent Games, York* Digital Civics , Newcastle* HighWire, Lancaster Media and Arts Technology, QMUL Healthcare Innovation, Oxford Web Science, Southampton Financial Computing, UCL, LSE & Imperial Big Data, Newcastle


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Main DE investments - 2 Framework for Research & Innovation in MediaCityUK (£2.7M, 20% AHRC) 7 partner consortium - connecting BBC, BT and the Digital & Creative Industries sector to research and innovation at Salford Quays. Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy AHRC (£2M), EPSRC (£2M), ESRC (£1M). Pioneering initiative to investigate the relationship between Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology through the lens of copyright law. Digital City Exchange Imperial College (£5.9M) Focus on using digital tech to boost capabilities, integrating transport, health, social & other (utility) systems in cities.


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Main DE investments - 3

Sandpits Digital Personhood (£5M with ESRC) Designing Effective Research Spaces (£3.2M with AHRC) Changing Travel Behaviour (led by the RCUK Energy Theme) (£1.6M) Design in the Digital World (£5.7M) Empathy & Trust in Communicating Online (EMoTICON) (£3.7M: ESRC AHRC EPSRC, DSTL, CPNI) (£0.5M)

Managed calls. Information Driven Healthcare (£8.6M), Transforming Energy Demand through Digital Innovation (TEDDI) initiative and BuildTEDDI (£7.9M, with Energy Theme) Bridging the Urban & Rural Divide (BURD £3M ), Research in the Wild (£6M), Internet of Things (£3.6M), New Economic Models (£7M, ESRC 25%).

Communities and Culture

Four ‘Network+’ awards (£1.5M each)

www.epsrc.ac.uk/digitaleconomy www.rcuk.ac.uk/digitaleconomy

Many players in the wider digital space - and partners –  TSB, KTN –  Connected Digital Economy Catapult –  Open Data Institute (ODI), Tech City –  AHRC’s Connected Communities, Digital Transformations and KE Hubs –  GCHQ, CPNI, Cabinet Office, DSTL – Cybersecurity Research Institutes and ACEs –  DEFRA – Rural Economy for Growth Review –  DECC and DST (India)– IUATC, BURD + Energy Theme –  DCMS - Creative Industries Council, –  BDUK – superfast broadband (dot.rural and BT) –  BIS – Information Economy Strategy and Council, E-infrastructure Council –  Treasury, Banks, FSA, retailers - Financial Computing CDT –  Mayor of London Office via Digital City Exchange


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The DE approach has worked well

Evidence shows the DE approach (working in partnership/co-creation with users, society, business and/or government) has worked well. Cited as success in DE Impact Review

•  evolved new ways of carrying out multidisciplinary research, innovative means of achieving impact, new research ecologies

•  something of which the UK research community and the Research Councils can be proud, and is an example of UK leadership in research internationally


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Popular press & Impact


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Future of DE Theme

"  Current RCUK Cross Council Themes established in response to a number of political drivers; DE in 2008

"  RCUK wants to support collaboration and working across and between disciplines; how best to do this in next CSR – 2016 onwards?

"  RCUK is doing mapping to see where interdis activities fit in - lots of other activities e.g. John O’Reilly Sci & Tech White Paper, Capital Consultation.

"  Different areas evolve and mature differently – some could have a central coordinating role, say for 5 years. Others may have huge research challenges taking them into the future for many years.


Everyone’s talking about Big Data (& Cities)

90% of all data created in past two years Business driven by the internet comprises 8.3% of the British economy £121 billion 1 trillion devices connected to the Internet by 2015, 3bn users Internet economy $4.2 trillion in G-20


Big Data has many aspects - driven by increasing digitisation of everything

Graphic modified from Neil Crockett, CDEC

KNOWLEDGE Data Science

OUTPUTS Disruptive and mashed

Conversion to knowledge and insight

Enterprise Data

Experimental, LHC etc.

Crowd-sourcing

Digital content

Social Media

Public sector data

DATA Collection and transport

Stored Curated

Analysed Visualised

Linked Internet of People and Things (IoT)

Transport

Retail, financial + other services

Healthcare Environment

Crea8ve Industries + Media

Security

Defence

Ci8es

NEW Products

NEW Applica8ons

NEW Services

NEW Solu8ons

Security and Trust

User centricity

Modelled

Energy

Educa8on Geo spatial


EPSRC supporting Doctoral Studentships in “Data to Knowledge”

"  Financial Computing & Analytics - Prof Philip Treleaven, UCL, Imperial and LSE

"  My Life in Data - Prof Steve Benford, University of Nottingham

"  Big Data and Cloud Computing – Prof Paul Watson, University of Newcastle

"  Urban Science and Progress - Prof Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick

"  Web Science Innovation – Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton


Where do you see the big opportunities for the Digital Economy Theme in the next few years?

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