ICT Cluster Recognises Birmingham's Technology 'Rising Stars' West Midlands ICT Cluster names its first ‘Rising Stars’, innovative technology companies 5 May 2010 Civico, Majestic12 and Spysure stood out among the Birmingham companies nominated by their peers as examples of businesses providing innovative or novel solutions and potentially helping to bring attention and jobs to the Birmingham technology community. The Cluster’s identification of Rising Stars has started with a focus on Birmingham based companies and will continue to highlight commendable companies throughout the West Midlands region. Two of the Birmingham companies, Civico and Majestic 12, are based at the Science Park, where Civico has taken advantage of the Park’s Entrepreneurs for the Future scheme. Civico has developed CivicoLive, an online democracy engagement platform which enables councils and public-facing organisations, through their meetings, conferences and events, to actively engage with citizens. The technology aims to change democracy by opening up the process to include all citizens in the dialogue wherever they may be, so delivering greater access and transparency. Finally, Spysure has developed an innovative PC and Internet Monitoring Software package, which records all online and offline activity on a computer. The main features include a website tracker, email capture, online chat capture on yahoo and MSN, screen capture and a key-logger which records all keystrokes. “Our first Rising Stars are just a small example of the talented technology companies that exist within our region. They bring prosperity and jobs to the West Midlands while their technologies put our R & D skills on the map internationally,” commented Mike Musson, ICT Cluster Manager. -Ends- Notes to Editors: About ICT Cluster The ICT Cluster is one of twelve clusters established by Advantage West Midlands as part of its economic development strategy. These clusters have been chosen on the basis of their current strength in the region and their potential to create jobs and economic growth. Advantage West Midlands is one of nine Regional Development Agencies in England whose role is to provide leadership and action to create more, better jobs and in improve the standard of living for all in the West Midlands The ICT Cluster will be hosting the Annual ICT Conference and ICT Excellence Awards on 25 November 2010. For further media information, please contact Ranbir Sahota or Sara Pennant, at Vitis PR on 0121 242 8048 or email ranbir@vitispr.com / sara@vitispr.com.
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