What is Digital Birmingham?

Who are we?

Building our digital future, together

Digital Birmingham is a city-wide initiative that is transforming Birmingham into a leading digital city. We are making the city a better place to live, work, and visit through providing the city’s institutions, communities, and businesses with the digital infrastructure, data platforms, and enablement programs they need to thrive in the digital world.

We collaborate with the city’s digital ecosystem to support the council with innovative solutions and technical support, while also striving to make Birmingham one of the world’s leading digital cities.

– our mission –

We believe that becoming a truly inclusive digital city requires a strong partnership between the council, business and the community. We collaborate with local businesses, entrepreneurs, and organizations from the public, private, community, and academic sectors to maximize the use of digital technologies and the skills of our citizens and local businesses. This collaborative approach enables valuable insights from data to be focused on the growth of the city’s economy and creating new innovative opportunities. Digital Birmingham is a city-wide initiative that is transforming Birmingham into a smarter city.

We are doing this by:

Creating inclusive sustainable economic growth by helping to create jobs, not only in the tech sector but throughout the city. We do this by bringing businesses together and enabling them to easily utilize technology. This allows the digital sector to expand and creates more companies overall.

Providing a base for innovation, where organizations and entrepreneurs can effortlessly experiment with new ideas and technologies. We ensure that all the necessary tools and resources are available to them. This ensures a testbed for new technologies, through innovation and city wide technology we will truly become a smart city.


Using digital technology to improve the city for everyone, by providing businesses and organizations with access to digital tools and resources that will help them to grow successfully in a digital economy. We also collaborate to build a digital infrastructure that helps businesses operate more efficiently and effectively. With established innovation within the city, it ensures that we are looked at by other cities for our ability to become a playground for ideation.

Using digital technology to improve the city for everyone, by providing businesses and organizations with access to digital tools and resources that will help them to grow successfully in a digital economy. We also collaborate to build a digital infrastructure that helps businesses operate more efficiently and effectively. With established innovation within the city, it ensures that we are looked at by other cities for our ability to become a playground for ideation.

We believe that digital technology has the power to transform Birmingham into a more prosperous, connected and sustainable city. By working together, we can build a brighter future for everyone in Birmingham.

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