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Adrian McEwen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@crowbriarhexe" class="u-url mention">@<span>crowbriarhexe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fire.asta.lgbt/@aud" class="u-url mention">@<span>aud</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan" class="u-url mention">@<span>RuthMalan</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@timd" class="u-url mention">@<span>timd</span></a></span> It&#39;s worshipful companies all the way down. The Worshipful Company of Weavers is the oldest of the Livery Companies 😀 </p><p>I was invited to join the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers a few years back and it seemed much worse than you suspect <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@timd" class="u-url mention">@<span>timd</span></a></span>. It seemed they were after a man-on-the-ground to take advantage of the &quot;opportunities&quot; around the £15m <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SensorCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SensorCity</span></a> development. I declined.</p><p>I&#39;m sure they all do a lot of work for charity.</p>
Adrian McEwen<p>The Government have replied to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@goatchurch" class="u-url mention">@<span>goatchurch</span></a></span>&#39;s FoI request about University Enterprise Zones and <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SensorCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SensorCity</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request_event/17308461" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">whatdotheyknow.com/request_eve</span><span class="invisible">nt/17308461</span></a></p><p>Interesting to see the £12m centre had a whole 7 businesses it could send surveys to; and the results are based on a massive 3 responses.</p><p>Given two of their interim reports include a section about Sensor City being closed, I&#39;m surprised they didn&#39;t have a nice graph showing &quot;% of UEZs open&quot; with 80% open and 20% closed</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Liverpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Liverpool</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UEZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UEZ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>innovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/regeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>regeneration</span></a></p>
Adrian McEwen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley" class="u-url mention">@<span>pikesley</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy" class="u-url mention">@<span>Floppy</span></a></span> have there been any follow-up studies on how useless such endeavours have been?</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@goatchurch" class="u-url mention">@<span>goatchurch</span></a></span> is keeping on with trying to get /some/ kind of lesson learnt with the similar mess that was (/is, allegedly) <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SensorCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SensorCity</span></a> <a href="https://scamtech.substack.com/p/the-evaluation-is-late" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scamtech.substack.com/p/the-ev</span><span class="invisible">aluation-is-late</span></a></p>
Adrian McEwen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@goatchurch" class="u-url mention">@<span>goatchurch</span></a></span> got to ask what lessons are being learnt from the failure of <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SensorCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SensorCity</span></a>. </p><p>You&#39;d think maybe you&#39;d want to work out what those lessons are before you spend £1m on a refit, but no, Mr Sinclair thinks the time for a review will be after he&#39;s reopened the building ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p>
Adrian McEwen<p>Must&#39;ve missed the time when Cambridge was &quot;Capital of Innovation&quot; for a year and that, rather than the long-running building of important tech firms, was why it&#39;s seen as a place for tech.</p><p>What the hell is a &quot;data lab&quot;?!?</p><p>Nice to hear a question from the floor about <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SensorCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SensorCity</span></a> which isn&#39;t from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@goatchurch" class="u-url mention">@<span>goatchurch</span></a></span> 🤣 </p><p>Ah, the problems with Sensor City were all about the building, not about any of the work around who&#39;s going to move in.</p><p>&quot;hoping the building will be open this September&quot;</p>
Adrian McEwen<p>Ah, I see that in their 2023 accounts <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SensorCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SensorCity</span></a> finally stopped claiming they were going to &quot;Create 300 businesses and 1000 new jobs in the next 10 years&quot;.</p><p>Probably about time, given they&#39;d made all their staff redundant and closed the building in 2021 😀</p><p>I note that they did manage to receive £9,187 from a &quot;job retention scheme grant&quot; in the same year that they *checks notes* made all their staff redundant 🤣</p>
Adrian McEwen<p>If you don&#39;t have a subscription, most of the facts were covered in my blog post a couple of months back - <a href="http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/liverpool/the_regenerationinnovation_cycle.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/liv</span><span class="invisible">erpool/the_regenerationinnovation_cycle.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SensorCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SensorCity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/regeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>regeneration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>innovation</span></a></p>
Adrian McEwen<p>Bless my cotton socks I&#39;m in the news.</p><p>The local independent newsletter The Liverpool Post have published an article about Sensor City, the £12m supposed tech and IoT hub that failed.</p><p>Featuring a few quotes from me and building on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@goatchurch" class="u-url mention">@<span>goatchurch</span></a></span>&#39;s FoI requests and investigations.</p><p><a href="https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/the-senselessness-of-sensor-city" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livpost.co.uk/p/the-senselessn</span><span class="invisible">ess-of-sensor-city</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SensorCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SensorCity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Liverpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Liverpool</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>innovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/regeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>regeneration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/IoT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IoT</span></a></p>
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