UK Knowledge Economy- Skills, Infrastructure & Services Dr Ivan Boyd

1. BT Innovate & Design Research & Technology UK Knowledge Economy- Skills, Infrastructure & Services Dr Ivan Boyd May 2012

2. Contents • Knowledge economy ecosystem • UK knowledge economy • BT’s supporting infrastructure and services • Supporting ICT education • Final thoughts and a question

3. Knowledge economy ecosystem

4. Simplified Knowledge Economy Ecosystem Global Trading Partners Policy Large companies SMEs Investment Start-ups Private Sector R&D/ Design Skills Health Care Social Care ICT Universities Schools Public Sector Key Enablers Global Trading Partners

5. Elements for Success

6. The uk knowledge economy

7. UK Knowledge Economy – Part 1 “to secure its place in the global economy, we need a decade of balanced growth…This balanced growth can only come from one place: the knowledge economy” - The Work Foundation • Provides 45 per cent of UK employment • UK IT industry is growing at five to eight times the national average • Delivers almost 50 per cent of UK value added • Successful knowledge-based services traded globally– high-tech services, consultancy and technical, financial services, media and educational • “The BBC. Not just the world’s best public service broadcaster, but arguably the most creative and technologically innovative of all” - Schmidt • As a share of GDP, the UK invests more in intangibles than Germany, France, Japan, Finland and Sweden and only slightly less than the US How healthy is it? The Good

8. UK Knowledge Economy –Part 2 “We must save our ideas from the ‘valley of death’ - Lord Browne • “Too many ideas fall into the ‘valley of death’ between lab and market or are commercialised overseas” – Lord Browne • “your track record isn’t great. The UK is the home of so many media-related inventions. You invented photography, TV, computers in both concept and practice. Yet today, none of the world’s leading exponents in these fields are from the UK” • “The number of applicants to Computer Science/IT related courses has declined from 31,000 in 2001 to 15,000 in 2007” (and that decline has continued) • “I was flabbergasted to learn that today computer science isn’t even taught as standard in UK schools. That is just throwing away your great computing heritage” - Schmidt How healthy is it? The Bad

9. The Bad UK Knowledge Economy – Healthy or Unhealthy? The Good

10. The Bad UK Knowledge Economy – Healthy or Unhealthy? The Good

11. UK Knowledge Economy – a personal view

12. Bt’s supporting infrastructure & services

13. BT’s supporting ICT Infrastructure • 21st Century Network • £10bn investment in UK National infrastructure • Key technologies: optical, ethernet, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) & IP • Multi-service network for both voice & data • Superfast Broadband • 10 million premises passed in 2012 • Installing 50000 new cabinets at a rate of 3000 cabinets per quarter • Laying 3m km of fibre across the UK • Doubled Fibre To The Cabinet product speed to 80/20 Mbit/s

14. Britain from above – Andrew Marr, BBC

15. BT Services BT iNetdelivers over 52% of Cisco’s UK Education business. BT iNet is a stand alone business unit with specialist sales and technical teams that are focused on the educational sector. iNet is a JANET network maintainer. They also provide: Data Centre & Cloud; LAN, Security and Wireless infrastructure, Unified Communications; and Value-add Partner Solutions. BT wins deal to connect research centres BT has won a contract with a telecoms network that connects more than 1,300 education and research sites in France and around the world. Under the deal with the French National Telecommunications Network for Technology, Education and Research (RENATER), BT will supervise, manage and operate its fibre-based internet protocol (IP) network round-the-clock, and supply and maintain infrastructure equipment.. New broadband deal benefits 100,000 pupils BT has won a partnership contract to connect around 250 schools to next generation network, broadband and education services. Using the very latest broadband technologies, pupils will benefit from safe and reliable access to a host of online learning activities.

16. Supporting ICT education

17. Why get involved in ICT Education? • Significant reduction in students taking Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects - A UK skills crisis is looming. • Research studies suggest that young people particularly value information on jobs and careers if obtained in a real workplace and through contacts with working people. OECD (2010), Learning for Jobs Play our part in creating enthusiasm for science, engineering and IT

18. e-mentoring scheme Secure platform that also ensures there is only anonymous student/mentor interaction

19. Typical Discussion Topics • Topics of conversation have included • How our business/sector works • What BT does • How we use different technologies • How different technologies work • Advice on programming problems • What makes a good web site/feed back on student web-site design • The Data Protection act and how it affects business • Our approach to reducing our carbon footprint • Project planning and management • Developing a database • Feedback on student CVs • What university is like • What it’s like being an apprentice • ...and lots, lots more

20. e-mentoring scheme And there’s access to a whole load of useful resources as well

21. Final thoughts and a question

22. Reminder: UK Knowledge Economy – a personal view

23. UAE Knowledge Economy - Your assessment? If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative. - Unknown

24. Thank YOU