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Tech City Map expands across UK

The Tech City Map, launched by David Cameron in December last year, will now expand its reach beyond London, to encompass the rest of the UK.

Mr Cameron pledged £200m to build technology and innovation centres as part of the Tech City Map launch in East London.

Now, the scheme will be expanded to highlight emerging hot-spots, so government can target support where it will do the most good.

Charles Armstrong, founder of the Tech City Map and CEO of Trampoline Systems, said: “East London has established itself as the UK’s densest and fastest-growing cluster of technology start-ups.

“This makes it the natural place to start analysing social network data to reveal hot-spots, trends and influences in the start-up community.”

Trampoline Systems and Playgen developed the Tech City Map which pulls in social network data feeds for over 1,000 businesses and already generates analysis on the relative influence of each one and links them by similar interests.

Mr David Cameron said: “The Tech City Map, which underlines the fantastic level of creativity and innovation that is 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.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .