Digital Birmingham

Partnership and Collaboration in Birmingham

Heike Schuster-James

Business & Programme Manager

20th Annual EBN Congress – Toulon 16.06.2011

Digital Birmingham – A City Partnership

• Established in 2006 as the driving force to ensure that the benefits of digital technologies are available to all in the city.

• 50+ partners from all sectors

• Public+Private+Academia+Third Sector

Our programme

Economic growth

Environmental Sustainability

Inclusion and Independent Living

Profiling Birmingham

One Council Example

A Birmingham case study

BCC Social Care

Job CentreSchool

Family

BCC benefits

Police

NHS

Multiple Interventions

to the individual family members

FCN 1 Family Advocate

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Prevention and directed intervention treating the family as a whole

How do we make this happen?

• Joint strategy • Multi-disciplinary and cross-agency • Common Assessment Framework• Single Family Action Plan• Shared database • Aligned resources: people, budgets and assets• Partnership agreement

Benefits of partnership working• Sum total bigger than the parts• Happier customers• Seamless customer

experience• Family able to help themselves• Prevention of deeper

deprivation• Reaching more stakeholders

jointly than singularly• Achieving outcomes not

outputs

• Shared investment – higher impact

• Reduced duplication leads to cost savings

• Social and economic benefits of active families and reduced service use

• Shared risk• Enhanced knowledge transfer• Establishing common

standards

DB Collaboration Strategy

• Citywide influence

• Embedded into strategies and policies

• Networking with decision makers

• Partners not contractors

Examples of DB collaborations

• 2011 ‘Kindle Camp’

• 2011-2009 Unconferences

• 2010 Transglobal Hackathon – Random Hacks of Kindness Open Data Hack

Results of DB partnership work

• 2010-2011 Pilot for a 4G network

2008-2011 Eco-Villages with Family Housing Association

• 2007 Wi-fi city centre network

Network of Networks

Contact:

heike.schuster-james@birmingham.gov.uk

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