Dave Carter is Head of the Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) at Manchester City Council. MDDA coordinates information society initiatives across the Greater Manchester city-region including community-based broadband initiatives and the ONE-Manchester Partnership Digital Challenge initiative. MDDA focuses on how digital technologies can support economic regeneration and social inclusion. The ONE-Manchester Partnership takes the lead within the Digital Challenge 10 (DC10) network on the Next Generation Connectivity workstream. He was one of the founder members of the Telecities network (part of Eurocities) and first President of Telecities (1994-96) and is currently involved in a range of EU funded projects including through the Interreg, Seventh Framework (FP7) and Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Programmes.

He was European Project Coordinator of the IntelCities – ‘Intelligent Cities’ – Project, a €11M project funded under the EU’s FP6 IST programme (2002-2006) in partnership with the University of Salford, Nokia, Cisco, Telecities/Eurocities and 20 other European Cities. In 1999 he was seconded for two years to Government Office for the North West (GONW) where he was responsible for ICT/New Media issues in relation to the implementation of the new European Structural Funds Objective 2 programme for North West England for 2000-2006. His involvement in previous EU programmes includes the European Digital Cities project, a major Support Action under the Fourth Framework Programme of the European Union (1996-2000), and the INFOCITIES project supported through the EU’s TEN-Telecom programme 1996-98. He was Acting Head of Economic Development at Manchester City Council 2002-2004, previously Deputy Head since 1999, having worked for Economic Development since 1987. He previously worked at Manchester University and in the voluntary sector.