22/02/23 - RSN Seminar: Rural Connectivity

- To download the Agenda for this seminar click here

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PRESENTATIONS

• Kerry Booth, Chief Executive Designate, Rural Services Network, “Welcome and introduction to the topic of Rural Connectivity”

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  Louise Branch, Community Engagement Manager, Good Things Foundation, “Tackling Data Poverty”

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  Femi Ogunbiyi, Senior Policy & Public Affairs Manager, Networks BT Group, “Digital Voice: getting it right for our customers”

• Cllr Philip Atkins OBE, and Iona McPhee, Digital Infrastructure Co-ordinator,
  Staffordshire County Council, “Gigafast Staffordshire – Connecting our rural communities”

• Laurie Patten, Director of Strategy and Regulation, Arqiva, “Protecting broadcast and radio services for rural communities”

SPEAKERS

To find out more about the speakers click on the following links:

Good Things Foundation
Louise Branch, Community Engagement Manager
https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/   

Find out about the National Data Bank, here:
https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/databank/  

Find out more about the Connectivity Guide, here:
https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/data-poverty-lab/supporting-people-with-data-connectivity-broadband-and-mobile-data/  

BT
Femi Ogunbiyi, Senior Policy & Public Affairs Manager, Networks
https://www.bt.com/help/landline/digital-voice-migration   

Staffordshire County Council
Cllr Philip Atkins OBE, and Iona McPhee, Digital Infrastructure Co-ordinator
https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/
https://gigafaststaffordshire.co.uk/digital-skills   

Arqiva
Laurie Patten, Director of Strategy and Regulation
https://www.arqiva.com/ 

USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

Revitalising Rural: Realising the Vision campaign:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/revitalising-rural

RSN Fair Funding Campaign:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/fairer-funding-campaign

Shared Rural Network bringing mobile broadband to rural communities:
https://srn.org.uk/

Project Gigabit:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-programme

Rural Lens reviews on government policies and strategies:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-lens

RSN Levelling Up Analysis:
Levelling Up Analysis - Rural Services Network (rsnonline.org.uk)

Kovia Consulting Rural Cost of Living research:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-cost-of-living.pdf

RSN Cost of Living Survey, running until 31 March 2023:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Rural_Households_Cost-of-Living

RSN members relevant to the seminar of connectivity:

Airband, building ultrafast full fibre broadband for hard-to-reach communities across the country. Find out more here: https://www.airband.co.uk/

Airband Village Hall offer:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/free-broadband-offer-for-village-halls-extended

Mobile UK, working with Government, regulators, civil society and others to harness the power of mobile to improve the lives of customers and the prosperity of the UK as a whole. Find out more here: https://www.mobileuk.org/   

Digital Mobile Spectrum, a joint venture of the UK mobile network operators EE, Virgin Media O2, Three and Vodafone with a vision for a disruption free digital life for people across the UK. Find out more, here: https://dmsluk.com/ 

USEFUL LINKS SHARED BY DELEGATES

My Way a fantastic resource for learning essential digital skills:
https://www.learnmyway.com/

Lincs Digital:
https://lincsdigital.org.uk/

National Data Bank:
https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/databank/   

Connectivity Guide:
https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/data-poverty-lab/supporting-people-with-data-connectivity-broadband-and-mobile-data/