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The MDDA’s mission is:

“To make Manchester a leading world class digital city, having one of the most competitive broadband infrastructures in Europe, attracting and sustaining investment in ICT and e-commerce across all sectors of the economy, generating new businesses, developing new learning cultures, promoting social inclusion and providing all residents with the skills and aspirations to play a full role in the information society”.

In looking to expand this strategic approach across the whole of the city-region Manchester City Council and its partners within the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) have linked up with three neighbouring municipalities, Tameside, Salford and Oldham, to create “ONE-Manchester” (Open Network E-Manchester). ONE-Manchester is a new partnership which brings together the public sector, private sector and voluntary/community sector around the idea of “turning the digital divide into a digital dividend”. This is looking at the longer term sustainability of digital inclusion policies and practices by developing a new collaborative delivery mechanism for digitally enabled services and social networking. It also aims to provide a sustainable digital development model, including digital cooperatives, which can be used to create social capital and community cohesion