Ukie announces new members and initiatives

Ukie has announced 10 new board members and two new initiatives at its AGM at EGX.

The newly-elected members on the trade bodys board are as follows:

The new additions means that 25 per cent of the board of directors are women, a first for the body.

Ukie chairman Andy Payne commented: It is a huge honour to lead such a talented, diverse and creative board at Ukie.

Each year competition for places increases and our democratic process has seen more people putting themselves forward for election and more members voting this year than ever before.

This proves that Ukie represents all game makers and publishers across all formats and platforms and means we can speak with one voice representing the games industry to government, media, policy makers and the public in the UK.

Ukie also announced two major new projects: the Digital Schoolhouse programme and the Nesta Games Cluster Map.

The programme, funded by the Mayor of Londons Schools Excellence Fund (LSEF), will aim to establish the new computing curriculum in schools and develop teaching of the subject across London.

Digital Schoolhouse, in collaboration with education association Computing at School, has recruited 10 London secondary schools to grow local networks of primary teachers in order to teach computing creatively.

By 2015 the project aims to have worked with at least 100 primary schools and reached thousands of children. Ukie has expressed its hope to expand the project nationwide over the next few years.

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