 I'm passionate about the idea of bringing more technology to more people. And Smart Cities is a great way to get more engagement and have more useful applications for the incredible developments in technology in our everyday lives. Wilton Keynes is a really interesting place because it's got a real spirit of innovation, it's a relatively new city, it's got this incredible academic institution, it's got other amazing small businesses around it and those things are what you need when you create a cluster so that you can create the energy and the ambition to really drive forward a big agenda like a Smart City. The Open University is really important in a Smart City initiative because academic institutions are kind of one of the bedrocks of any great small area of innovation and expertise and OU can bring a bunch of different things, brains, research, lots of the things that are happening in this building and being worked on on this campus are the things that will drive forward the Smart Cities agenda, whether it's new kinds of technologies, new ways of looking at data, new ways of thinking about all of this stuff so a university is a very important part of the puzzle to make these things work. I'm an absolute believer in preserving the central tenets of the internet which is around openness, neutrality, transparency and this is really important to carry forward into the Smart Cities agenda and it seems to me to link Smart Cities, the Open University and the best of what the internet can deliver. The Open University is all about inclusion and access and creating resources and a place where research flourishes and is accessible to all and the Smart Cities initiative will work on open data standards that allow people to plug in their innovative and new ideas. We don't want it just to be commercialised, we want it to be great public projects.