Session: Totally Online Barnsley
Barnsley has announced that it will be the first place in Britain where everyone is online - and by the time of the 2012 Games. The Council's Cabinet Member and lead officer responsible for this boldly (or crazily) ambitious claim will explain the what, the why and the how of the whole thing.
Biography
Educated at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Martin Cantor spent the first seven years of his working life delivering laundry, during which time he was involved in a wide range of trade union activities. In the early 1980's he helped establish the TUC's network of Unemployed Centres, eventually taking a full-time job there. He subsequently worked on European, regional and regeneration policy for the Coalfield Communities Campaign and the Alliance for Regional Aid. Since January 2004 he has led Barnsley Council's European and Regional Strategy Team
Within his job he is Secretary of the South Yorkshire Public Sector e-Forum, developing joint public sector strategies to make the most of developments in ICT, for citizens, the economy, and for public sector bodies themselves. He co-ordinates South Yorkshire’s digital inclusion programme Making IT Personal, and leads Totally Online Barnsley, the campaign to make Barnsley the first place in Britain where the entire population is digitally aware and enabled – and to do so by the time of the 2012 London Games.
