"Centre for London will promote wider understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing London and develop rigorous and radical policy ideas for the capital."

All over the world governments dream of creating centres of digitial innovation to rival Silicon Valley. The British government is no exception. Over the last two years it has led a high profile drive to support 'Silicon Roundabout' - the high tech cluster that has emerged in Inner East London - and turn it into something bigger: Tech City.

"Use your Oyster card to play online Chromaroma takes your travel data and makes it into a game where every journey counts in a competition for the city!"

Inspired by a series of workshops conducted in Italy in 2006, Massimo Banzi will lead a 2 day workshop around using the Arduino board and RFID, an electronic identification technology

The 24-Hour Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon, introduced by Julia Peyton-Jones and presented by Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist, will feature experiments performed by leading artists, architects and scientists

things we wish we could do