Outlines the establishment of the Trafford Park Development Corporation and the subsequent setting up and development of the Trafford Park Performance and Quality Forum. The forum aims to benefit all companies by creating a more robust Trafford Park which will ideally safeguard the vast amount of capital continually being invested in the area. Explores the role and activities of the forum under the broad headings of mission and objectives; benefits of membership; achievements to date; training courses and events; resource directory; and subgroups.

Digital technologies are reshaping behaviors and human interactions as well as having great impacts on the environmental, political and economic level. In the contemporary digital scenario, it becomes paramount for people to be able to adapt and unleash their full creative potential empowering a whole new set of skills, namely Digital Creative Abilities. Within the DC4DM European project, the aim of the paper is to introduce an operational framework built as part of the methodology used to identify the most important methods and tools to enhance the DCAs related to ethics, sustainability and futures thinking. Indeed, an ad hoc methodology was implemented in order to provide a systematic overview of the existing resources that could be useful to develop the competencies to design responsibly and sustainably with digital technologies and to envision futures possibilities.

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