Bristol is Open

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Creating the world's first open programmable city

Paul Wilson - MD of Bristol is Open

What's going on in cities and technology around the world

Increasing urbanisation as people move into cities - more than 6bn people will live in cities by 2050. Aging populations and overconsumption, water need and pollution.

Is Bristol a microcosm? The third most congested city in the UK, over 85s fastest growing - 50% growth in a decade.

Massive increase in use of connected devices - massive future demand for bandwidth is a real challenge.

UK is 28th in availablility of bandwidth to users.

In this project every partner will have access to at least 30Gb of connectivity. New fibre ring across the city. City OS or NETOS connected to a supercomputer.

A lot of wireless - and much more than what he describes as 'humble WiFi'. Putting in a widespread pervasive mesh network.