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Putting Digital Ethics on the Map
I’ve been thinking and writing recently about digital ethics, considering whether we are putting technology infrastructure ahead of people and society. Its a challenging conversation that academia has engaged with, but that has previously been missing from Digital Transformation and IT professional practice. Technology itself currently has little ethics…
Developing Digital Transformation services with Leidos UK
Dr Hannah Rudman has been supporting Leidos UK to develop a Digital Transformation practice as Associate Principal Consultant. Leidos is a $10bn t/o global science and technology solutions company, undertaking complex critical work to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. In the UK, Leidos works with with the…
Dr Hannah Rudman FBCS, FRSA – on what can not be automated…
Dr Hannah Rudman has been awarded Fellowship status from the British Computer Society (BCS), The Chartered Institute for IT. This means some more post nominal letters (FBCS), and formal recognition for Hannah as an IT Professional. To celebrate, she wrote a guest post for the BCS’s Future Tech…
Augmenting the reality of your brand’s social agency
In commentating in the Sunday Herald earlier this week on the meteoric international uptake of Niantic’s Pokémon GO app, I predicted that next for augmented reality (AR) would be apps that make virtual communication a little more real. I drew the analogy of R2D2’s playing of Princess Leia’s plea…
Lessons from Creative Science at Life at ASTC 2016
Dr Hannah Rudman and Andy Lloyd of the Designing for Creativity and Innovation in Informal Science Learning project presented learnings and findings to international informal science learning practitioners and academics at the 2016 conference of the Association of Science-Technology Centers in Tampa, Florida. “Embedded in the Exhibit” was presented…
Chair of Wellcome Trust visits exhibit pod
The Chair of the Wellcome Trust, Baroness Manningham-Buller visited the exhibit pod, and spoke to the Design for Creativity and Innovation in Informal Science Learning team of academic researchers and science centre practitioners. The team explained to the Baroness about the live science experiments we are undertaking with it,…
Designing for creativity and innovation in science learning
Head over to the Centre for Life in Newcastle UK’s blog to read about Rudman Consulting’s latest research work. Undertaken with anthropologists and digital humanities experts at Durham University, and practitioners from the Centre for Life, Hannah Rudman has introduced participatory action research methods and design processes to a novel…
The Third Wave: Digital by Desire
Digital by Default Those of us working in and with the public sector, or those of us in receipt of public funds have been working with an ethos of “Digital by Default” since 2012. Then, the UK Government released the Government Digital Strategy which set out how the…
Design thinking works for organisational change
A key aspect of the success of Rudman Consulting’s AmbITion Approach for digital business transformation is its inclusions of design thinking approaches and tools, and creative practices. We have studied and academically verified that most businesses which used more design and creative practices during change journeys, such as the AmbITion Approach, were very…
Summary of Envirodigital video case studies
Hannah Rudman presents the case study of Claimexpenses.com – a development to help freelancers calculate their CO2 footprint when working with different organisations, as well as claim travel expenses back: Hannah Rudman presents the case study story of the virtual world digital content development that The Scape Trust…
Envirodigital’s work for government
Envirodigital has been working with Scotland’s 2020 Climate group and Scottish Enterprise to develop a response to Scottish Government about how the Creative and Interactive Industries will respond as a sector to Scotland’s low carbon transition. View our report. Envirodigital approached the Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group, suggesting that…
Five Minute Theatre: co-production with National Theatre of Scotland
Envirodigital created larger scale, but smaller environmental impact, live productions for arts, cultural and heritage organisations, event organisers, and content producers by adding a digital element to them. 24 hours of 5 minute pieces of live theatre from around Scotland were broadcast by us! UPDATE: June 2012 –…
A framework for the transformation of the creative industries in a digital age
From 2011 – 2015, Hannah undertook PhD research at the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation at Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Computing. The doctoral research studied the concepts, methodologies, and tools of The AmbITion Approach, and validated it as a framework for business transformation of the creative…
Summary of Envirodigital publications
‘Culture’s role in environmental change’, article for The Guardian ‘Green Digits‘ article for Arts Professional Top Tips for E-publishing How to Webcast
The Touring Network builds digital tools to measure CO2 of rural touring
The Touring Network (TTN) works to support, represent and develop professional live performances happening in small-scale venues across the Highlands & Islands. Across such a vast geographic area, from Shetland to Argyll and Perthshire to Skye, the carbon costs of touring to remote and varied locations can be significant – not only are distances great but transport and buildings…
Dance House Glasgow: Cloud ticketing for mobile sales & great CRM
Dance House Glasgow embarked on an digital development project to examine and develop its on-line presence, services and promotional offerings. This led to the implementation of an organisation-wide software solution to improve customer service, operational efficiency and bring new audience development possibilities. Dance House Glasgow now has an improved…
Lung Ha Theatre Company uses digital as proxy for organisational development
Lung Ha Theatre Company has been conducting a programme of strategic digital development with the support of AmbITion since 2013. The process has been the catalyst for wider change within the organisation, and the project has grown to incorporate multiple aspects of the company’s work and identity. In…
The Traverse Theatre’s Digital Content Developments
The Traverse Theatre wanted to develop the digital offering available to our online audience. We sought to streamline our digital platforms and incorporate regular high quality rich media content on a year-round basis, thereby increasing the online reputation of the Traverse Theatre and the quality of content for our digital…
The Touring Network builds digital tools to measure CO2 of rural touring
The Touring Network works to support, represent and develop professional live performances happening in small-scale venues across the Highlands & Islands. Across such a vast geographic area, from Shetland to Argyll and Perthshire to Skye, the carbon costs of touring to remote and varied locations can be significant – not only are distances great but transport and buildings infrastructure…
