Release Date:
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Connected Mobile Communities meet in the Outer Hebrides
The Connected Mobile Communities (CMC) project met in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland for their Steering meeting on 10th and 11th February 2010.
This project is funded by the Northern Periphery INTERREG 4B Programme and includes local and regional authorities from North Karelia (Finland), Vasternorrland (Sweden), Derry (Northern Ireland), San Sebastian (Spain), Donegal (Ireland) and Outer Hebrides (Scotland).
The main output from the CMP project will be a number of software services that will run on mobile phones and iPod and the main task of the meeting was to review progress in developing the services and to agree arrangements to test them in the different regions.
A key innovation of the project is to design and build the services in such a way as they can be deployed in more than one region, thus achieving better value for money.
The attendees at the meeting also took the opportunity to study the high speed wireless broadband network that has been constructed in the Outer Hebrides to ensure that the mobile services being developed in this project can be deployed to communities, businesses and homes on the Islands
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