Arts & Culture Digital Insights
Pablo Carrillo,
Marcus Lyon is a British artist whose works are held in prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Arts Council Collection of Great Britain. He marries together science and sound with traditional arts forms, through the themes of globalisation,…
Matt Votsikas McLean,
Today’s growing global market means businesses have to consider language as one of the key drivers to growth, especially if the organisation transacts and deals with people across borders who have their own native language. This adds another layer of challenge for technical developers to create an app that will…
Arts & Culture Digital Insights
Jo Morrison,
This year’s Museweb 2020 conference, the world’s largest international museum technology conference, successfully transitioned its whole five-day programme in Los Angeles to the online world in just two weeks — a magnificent and Herculean effort necessitated by the worldwide lockdown. To jumpstart this annual showcasing of peer-reviewed practice from innovators…
Jo Reid,
To say that the world has seen an abrupt change due to the COVID-19 outbreak is a massive understatement. Organisations of all types and sizes have had to quickly pivot their business models to operate in a completely digital realm. Despite easing of lockdown restrictions in the UK, with no…
Jo Morrison,
True to form, the arts and cultural heritage sector has risen to the challenge of making themselves, their collections and sites digitally available for people to experience during lockdown. It’s an extraordinary achievement and has been driven by ingenuity (e.g. Sadlers Wells), determination (e.g. Derby Museums)… plus code, kit and…
Mary-Anne McCarron,
At the time of writing, several countries are slowly starting to lift their lockdown restrictions (the UK government outlined a new lockdown roadmap in early May) and with hopes that we are turning the corner on this pandemic, we can now begin to reflect on how technology has been adopted…
Jo Reid,
Calvium has been certified by JOSCAR – the accreditation and compliance system for the defence and aerospace sectors, including prime contractors, civil aviation and security. Our client, QinetiQ, invited Calvium to register and now our compliance information is available to all buying organisations who are part of the JOSCAR community….
Jo Morrison,
‘Mobile apps are key to helping industry digitally transform its working practices’, says Jo Reid, Managing Director, of Calvium, specialists in designing and developing mobile solutions that deliver business-critical services. Reid, who will be speaking at the Digital Leaders Virtual Summit, says using mobile apps to improve or replace traditional,…
Jo Morrison,
On the 23rd of March, the UK was placed on lockdown and overnight our town centres became ghost towns. As I write, people are gradually returning to the high street, but the relationships that were once had have changed, but as yet we don’t know how. Recent figures from BDO…
Jo Reid,
While Britain has been working from home during the lockdown, it’s been hard not to miss news of the extensive lack of medical supplies, such as personal protective equipment (PPE), which is much needed by healthcare workers across the UK. Like so many others with a desire to help in…
Mary-Anne McCarron,
There are lots of different ways that we can harness digital technologies and different ways of working with tech that might not be obvious at first glance. For one, digital placemaking reframes brick-and-mortar stores and online marketplaces not as competitors but as synergised commerce. The Internet of Things allows us…
Jo Morrison,
Climate change is happening. We are in a climate and environmental emergency as a result of human activity. If humanity takes collective action now to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions it’s believed that we can limit the effects of climate change and adapt to them. To this end, the UK…