Technology

We will be working closely with our partners to ensure we use existing and emerging technologies in innovative and powerful ways.
 

Operational technology

When it comes to staging the Games, technology will play a bigger part than ever before.

It will be central to the ways we capture scores, timings and performance in the sports competitions.

Inside the venues, technology will feed back information to officials, spectators, venue staff and volunteers.

And it will help with all levels of decision making during the Games, from separating a photo finish to managing the flow of people to and from the Park.

Business technology

Technology is not just relevant to the delivery of the Games.

It will be instrumental in our planning, procurement and other business activities in the run up to 2012.

From the way we share information with multiple stakeholders to modelling data such as pedestrian flows in the Olympic Park, technology will help us run a world-class programme.

Communications technology

Technology will transform the way people engage with the Games. It is not just about receiving information – it will also be about reacting to it.

Digital channels such as the web and mobile phones will be the number one way for everyone to access, share and participate in the 2012 Games.

In the run-up to the Games, we will be offering people ways to get closer to the action, interacting with our data and sharing their own.

Come 2012, there will be new ways to interact with events, whether it is through spectator services in the Olympic Park or interactive technologies in UK towns and cities.

Our plans

We will be using mature and advanced technologies in the Games.

We are looking at existing, proven systems already in use. But this is also an opportunity to push boundaries, and work with leading suppliers and developers to create new applications.

We will be ensuring our technological solutions are reliable – able to perform on the day, in all kinds of places and under extreme conditions.

And we will be re-deploying some of the technology solutions used during the Games to the lasting benefit of local communities after 2012.

Of course, technology is not an end in itself. Our focus is the Games and the people who will take part, as spectators, volunteers or competitors.

But using it imaginatively will help to create a Games excitingly relevant for a 21st-century audience – a ‘Games for a connected world'.