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UK Prime Minister David Cameron Launches Tech City Map
By Trampoline Systems | Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Earlier today UK Prime Minister David Cameron visited Shoreditch to launch the Tech City Map, the project created by Trampoline to analyse the fast-growing ecosystem of technology businesses located in East London. The platform uses Trampoline’s SONAR technology to pull in Twitter feeds for more than 800 businesses in the area and analyse their connections, influence and focus on the community. David Cameron said of the project:“The Tech City Map, which underlines the fantastic level of creativity and innovation taking place in the area, is a great showcase for East London’s start-up community. It’s also a demonstration of how small, innovative businesses can collaborate with leading corporations. It’s fitting that the Tech City Map is 100% home-grown in East London with its creators Trampoline and Playgen both based in Shoreditch.”
The project was developed in partnership with Thomson Reuters, Mother, Cisco, Atos and LinkedIn and the user interface was designed by Shoreditch-based business Playgen. The BCS and London Borough of Hackney also supported the project.
A gallery of photographs from the launch event is available on the Trampery’s Facebook page.
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Launch of Tech City Map Partnership
By Trampoline Systems | Thursday, July 7th, 2011
This afternoon twenty-five senior representatives from government, private sector and academic concerns convened at the Trampery. The purpose of the meeting was to identify different stakeholders’ information needs as they relate to the East London technology community. After an introduction by Eric van der Kleij, CEO of the Tech City Investment Organisation, there were contributions from policy makers, investors and corporate stakeholders plus expert presentations on previous initiatives to track technology ecosystems and reports on ongoing projects that are compiling datasets of East London businesses.Towards the end of the meeting I demonstrated the prototype of a platform developed by Trampoline that sets out to analyse the cluster of businesses by aggregating social network feeds for up to 10,000 people working in East London. The prototype only includes 80 businesses but it can already generate analysis on the relative influence of each one and link them by the similarity of their interests.
The meeting concluded with the group agreeing to form a partnership bringing together all existing datasets and developing an analytic platform to furnish the information required by stakeholders. Trampoline will coordinate the partnership and lead the development effort.
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