Developing T
a digital Jersey
he ‘good old days’ may not have been as good as we like to remember but they were certainly far
simpler. Today’s pace of change has never been greater or, for many, more daunting. While chanting the mantra ‘change is good, change is good’ we all need to buckle up because, as the saying goes ‘…you ain’t seen nothing yet’
It took 75 years for the telephone to get into 90% of households, mobile phones only 15 years and smart phones far less.
By PAUL MASTERTON, Chairman, Digital Jersey
Paul Masterton is Chairman for Digital Jersey. Following a 30 year career in printing, business outsourcing and data management, Paul was chief executive of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust from 2008-13.
In addition to Digital Jersey, Paul holds non-executive positions in finance, insurance and property development, is a Governor of Highlands College and Vice president of the Jersey Hockey Association.
Facebook has done in just eight years what the CIA failed to do in 66 years – to find out what over a billion people around the world are thinking, feeling and doing. And so it goes on, inexorably driven by Moore’s Law – not a ‘law’ at all but an observation that the power of computing doubles approximately every two years – which has become the driving force for technological and social change in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Add to this tsunami of change the deep and complex challenges that all societies face population growth, ageing population, strained infrastructure, depleting natural resources, economic growth, environment, education, crime and many more - make the
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For a start, Digital Jersey has set three high level objectives: economic, societal and reputational. The economic objectives are centred on business growth and job creation, supporting businesses already here and attracting new companies to
in close proximity gives us a valuable opportunity to connect the means of deploying technology with those who may benefit from it.
Delivering these objectives, needs to reflect the major technology trends that are
future a scary place. Scary or not, daunting or not, it’s not going to wait for us and we can’t ignore it, not here in Jersey, not anywhere, so we need to be positive and get on with it. Recognising the crucial role that technology plays and the opportunity for growth in the digital sector, the island made a commitment to the future, a commitment that led to the launch of Digital Jersey in January 2013. Contributing to this was the compelling need to diversify the economy and to reduce Jersey’s over reliance on the financial sector. What does this mean for the island as Digital Jersey gets going?
the island; the reputational objectives are around putting Jersey on the world map as an attractive place for digital business, by which we mean anything with bits and bytes, from software development through to animation.
Our societal objectives are those which will be experienced by Jersey’s residents and visitors and focus on education and training and how technology can improve the quality of life. This small island thrives on social capital – that is the networking that does not involve wires and WiFi. Having government, businesses and the population
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