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West Midlands Digital Roadmap 1 Building the Future West Midlands Digital Roadmap 2021 West Midlands Digital Roadmap 2 Forewords Andy Street Mayor of the West Midlands Digital connectivity is going to be vital to our That is why I am delighted to be introducing this economic bounce back. It is the golden thread that comprehensive refresh of our regional digital links all of our industries – Advanced manufacturing, strategy. The document is forward looking. It aims to automotive, life sciences, professional services, realise the ambitions of our Local Industrial Strategy, construction, low carbon, transport, healthcare, build on the successes of our 5G testbed, and tackle public services - all are being transformed by the decisively the issue of digital exclusion. But we power of digital technologies. Ensuring all our citizens know we cannot do this alone. This refresh aims to are equipped to play a full part in, and benefit from really push the boundaries of collaborative working, this transformation is a shared endeavour. maximising areas of mutual interest between the public, private and third sectors. In my time at John Lewis, I witnessed the power of the digital revolution, taking our products online and I hope that this document makes clear our intent allowing us to compete with growing digital commerce to digitise the West Midlands and embrace the companies like Amazon. I know how important it is that opportunities that lie ahead. we innovate to keep up with the needs of our time. West Midlands Digital Roadmap 3 Cllr Pat Harley Kari Lawler WMCA Culture and Digital Young Combined Authority Portfolio Holder and Digital Lead Leader of Dudley Council Over 2020, the importance of digital This Roadmap sets out an ambitious As a tech entrepreneur, I have seen skills and experience. Pre-skilling the technology has become clear to all direction of travel for the West first-hand how pivotal investing in and regions youth now will be essential to of us – for work, communicating Midlands – to become a forward levelling-up digital capabilities is for filling current and future digital skills with family and friends, providing looking and inclusive digital economy, our region. Countless opportunities shortages, and setting our digital entertainment, and helping us where data is used to improve can be created through improvements economy up for success. manage our health. Businesses and our public services and the latest in connectivity, data usage, and communities have adapted remarkably, technology used to reduce our carbon innovation. A strong focus on digital showing the trademark innovation that footprint. If we work together, both inclusion can then provide everyone our region is known for. pushing past frontiers and fixing our with equal access. foundations, the West Midlands can Yet too many of our communities are lead the way in this fourth industrial From my experience speaking to still left behind by the digital divide, revolution as we did in the first. thousands of young people through forced to share a single laptop between my digital youth initiative, I see a lot large families or unable to navigate of talent but too little support. So we digital platforms. And too many of need to make sure industry support our businesses are unable to realise is in place for these young people the benefits of digital, through limited to gain vital careers advice, industry connectivity or outdated technology. West Midlands Digital Roadmap 4 Summary - 5 Missions for 2021 - 2026 Securing access for everyone to digital opportunities, particularly those in poverty Sharing and using data to improve people’s lives Becoming the UK’s best-connected region Realising the potential of digital to transform our economy and build economic resilience Using digital public services to build a fairer, greener, healthier region West Midlands Digital Roadmap 5 CONTEXT Where are we now? West Midlands Digital Roadmap 6 West Midlands leading UK on North of Tyne 5G Connectivity 0.56% Combined Authorities: 5G% Tees Valley 0.46% North East 1.05% West Yorkshire 4.09% Greater Manchester 5.26% Sheffield City Region 3.24% Liverpool City Region 3.49% Cambridgeshire & Peterborough 0.17% West Midlands 10.97% West of England 6.21% West Midlands Digital Roadmap 7 Internationally Competitive Digital Industries High Potential Opportunity (HPO) Birmingham and Solihull schemes led by Department for International Trade to boost FDI Data Driven Healthcare & Technologies (2020) Coventry and Warwickshire Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Modelling and Simulation (2020) Warwickshire ‘Silicon Spa’ Gaming Industry (2018) West Midlands Digital Roadmap 8 PWC ‘Tech Building Digital BT Barefoot - We Can’ Schools teacher training lesson plans Skills in Partnership for schools PWC Good Pre- Lloyds Bank Things Employability BT Skills for qualifications/ We are digital Foundation Google Garage Basic Skills Hub & Digital tomorrow digital literacy helpline online Adult Education Budget Digital & Courses Fitness app Centres Employability Colleges and Courses Adult and Local Auth. ESP Community Programmes Learning Private Sector Providers IT User Skills Level 1 for work (range of providers) College- Coursera Skills Toolkit led Digital Workforce Other Partners (Govt. National Entitlement Recovery Careers Service) courses Initiative Level 2 LEARN MORE AT TLEVELS.GOV.UK LEARNLEARN MOREMORE ATAT TLEVELS.GOV.UKTLEVELS.GOV.UK Certificate Essential Microsoft Digital LEARN MORE AT TLEVELS.GOV.UK (GCSE or in IT User Skills Digital Skills for Skills Initiative equivalent) (Level 2) Work (Level 2) Certificates Key Vendor Study How to support your child to use Level 3 and Diplomas Qualifications Programmes Games Design (e.g. ICT Systems at colleges (e.g. (A level or and T levels (16- Boot Camp Support, MS, Compita, equivalent) 18 year olds) Digital Tech) Cisco) GOOGLE PWC CLASSROOM Technology Join our free Google Classroom course for parents Level 4-5 TLEVELS.GOV.UK LEARN MORE AT TLEVELS.GOV.UK LEARN MORE LEARN TLEVELS.GOV.UK AT MORE LEARN TLEVELS.GOV.UK TLEVELS.GOV.UK LEARN MORE AT TLEVELS.GOV.UK LEARN MORE LEARN TLEVELS.GOV.UK AT MORE LEARN TLEVELS.GOV.UK Degree AT TLEVELS.GOV.UK LEARN MORE and learn how to use the software to support your Apprenticeships children with home learning during lockdown. (Degree level) apprenticeships LEARN IN LOCKDOWN Images: Promotional OTHER SHORT ONLINE SESSIONS AVAILABLE Higher Level Visit: www.walsallcollege.ac.uk/short-course-enrolment materials from Walsall Collegeand secure your place now! Skills University and Colleges Level 6 + West Midlands Digital Roadmap 9 Digital Retraining Fund Round One Round Two Tech Talent Digital Innov8ors - Academy - software support and mentoring and digital for women for low wage and and underrepresented unemployed people, individuals focussing on women Caudwell Children Brit Asia TV - Halesowen College Spectra - training - training 60 young supporting low - support focussed on 50 care leavers in AI, autistic people in cloud wage ethnic minority disadvantaged ethnic coding and cyber infrastructure and individuals in digital minority women cyber security media skills Fircroft College Dudley College - - bootcamp and Ashley Housing Training 500 adults Comp TIA - technical, digital café focussing Group - supporting in manufacturing soft and career readiness on ethnice minorities & and upskilling ethnic technology, drone skills, & mentoring people with mental minority individuals technology and VR health challenges Code your Future LEAD - women Birmingham University - training 300 adults in technology, Princes Trust - working - female learners for employed in low paid digital procresses, with 800 younger adults coding and data analytics employment in coding, design thinking and across technologies into employment focussing on refugee service design community Open University TDM - Level 3 Training Niyo - web/mobile School of Code - - retrain 60 for digital jobs, women, application for skills working with 120 adults remployed adults in employers digital for black women across region cyber, focussing transformation on women Netcom - 20 individuals rapidly Generation - retraining retrained with 700 JCP customers higher digital skills to get into work Image: Code Your Future in infrastructure and cyber participants West Midlands Digital Roadmap 10 Innovative Uses of Data and Digital in Public Services West Midlands Police seen as national leaders in the use of data analytics, cloud technology, and digital transformation University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust and the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust are both NHS Global Digital Exemplars Established the West Midlands Office for Data Analytics as part of 2017 Devo Deal West Midlands Digital Roadmap 11 Significant Challenges Across the Region Impact of Covid • Highest number of non-internet • Large productivity gap – • Shift to working from home users in UK (1/5th), with a further particularly Digital and Creative has accelerated pressures on 1/5th limited users sector (-£7,157 GVA per employee connectivity and changed business compared to UK average) models of public and private sector • Low broadband connectivity, particularly Black Country - full fibre • Limited cross-regional governance • School closure highlighted coverage under 10% in Sandwell, to drive shared progress on these challenges of digital exclusion, with Walsall, and Dudley challenges, particularly around data children unable to access learning sharing, digital inclusion, and basic • Limited mobile connectivity – digital infrastructure
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