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BBC, public service & adaptive futures
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D
@cubicgarden
@cubicgarden

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About me
@cubicgarden | Sometimes I forget that my world is not the mainstream (yet) - Eric Nehrlch

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I was not a fan of the BBC

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Zero reflection of my life & aspirations
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Opportunity calls
@cubicgarden | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/896084.stm | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3716111-uncertain-vision

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Public Service

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BBC Research & Development
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/about/our-purpose | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-07-prototyping-the-bbc-microbit

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New pastures await…
@cubicgarden | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/09/bbc-television-peter-salmon | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2011/may/26/mediacityuk-bbc-salford-move-postgate-r-d

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Head North
@cubicgarden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_(newspaper)

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Digital City | Media City
@cubicgarden | https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/features/2019/02/how-mediacityuk-delivering-its-ambition-create-explosion-creativity

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R&D in the North

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R&D North lab
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2011/may/26/mediacityuk-bbc-salford-move-postgate-r-d | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2011/nov/21/mediacityuk-bbc-research-development

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NE tech hub
@cubicgarden | https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/broadcasting-news/2021/09/bbc-announces-biggest-investment-decades-north-east

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Research into adaptive media

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Adaptive and flexible media
@cubicgarden | http://thecreativeexchange.org/projects/perceptive-media | https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/broadcast-100

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Built in the north
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

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Podcasting has much more potential

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@cubicgarden |
Podcasting now
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Reinventing podcasting
@cubicgarden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting

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Smartphones
@cubicgarden

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Data, sensors and computational power
@cubicgarden
Device Owner Name
Number of Contacts
Battery Level
Battery Condition
Current Activity
Elevation
Number of Installed Apps
Device Make/Model
Time of Day
Weather
Sun Elevation
Location
Indoor/Outdoor
Mobile Network Operator Name
Available Wifi Networks
Altitude Pressure
Connected Bluetooth Devices
Proximity
External or Internal Audio Device
Device Orientation
Ambient Brightness
Local Noise Environment
Calendar
Music Tastes
Financial News
User Fitness Information
Current Heart-rate
Number of Listeners/Users
Can it hear itself
Is it in someone's pocket or
elsewhere?
What kind of apps
Knowledge of Home and Work

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Adaptive podcasting ecosystem
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-09-adaptive-podcasting

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Demos
@cubicgarden

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Prototype on the beta Google play store
@cubicgarden | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbc.perceptivepodcasts

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Community of practice

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New medium, new rules
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15524004

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@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/makerbox | http://storytellers.link
Community of practice

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The future of adaptive podcasting

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Open source everything *
@cubicgarden | * Q3 2023 (tbc)

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The future of public service R&D

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This is a model for public service R&D
@cubicgarden | http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/about/how_we_govern/2016/agreement.pdf
1. The BBC must ensure that it conducts research and development activities geared to the fulfilment of the Mission
and the promotion of the Public Purposes and which aim to maintain the BBC’s leading role in research and
development in broadcasting and other means for the distribution and consumption of audio, visual and audiovisual
material and other content, and in related technologies.
2. In carrying out its function under paragraph (1), the BBC must pay particular attention to supporting and engaging
actively in national and international forums for the development of “open standards” (that is to say, technologies
where opportunities to participate in their creation are made widely available, free of charge or on terms that are
fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory).
3. These activities should be conducted both within the BBC and, as much as possible, in co-operation with suitable
partners, such as university departments and businesses which are active in relevant fields of research and
development or the practical application of the fruits of such research and development.
4. The BBC must keep its research and development activities under review, and must (in particular) ensure that an
appropriate balance is struck between
a. the potential for generating revenue through commercial exploitation of its intellectual property, and
b. the value that might be delivered to the public and the UK economy by making new developments widely
and openly available

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It’s always been about Public Service

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…And empowering the next generations
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@cubicgarden | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbc.perceptivepodcasts | https://t2m.io/JfQZwvVy | https://www.bbc.co.uk/makerbox
Ian Forrester
@cubicgarden
Thank you for listening, questions?