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DAA11EU Impressions and Reflections

Conferences come and go but there’s always something that sticks in your mind. The Digital Agenda Assembly 2011 was structured around the pillars of the Digital Agenda and sought to set the scene for European Activity to achieve the targets for 2020. So what sticks in my mind? The venue; Autoworld was a pretty spectacular [...]

Cesi n'est pas une pipe

The National Digital Inclusion Conference 2010 (NDI 10) was a better conference than last year. This was in part due to the involvement of larger numbers of individuals and groups that are engaged in delivery and in part due to the organisation of the event which was much more open than last year. Martha Lane [...]

Who are the Neteratti?

One of the things that people tend to ignore is that government organisations are not designed to be transformational. They are designed to be process oriented, reliable, auditable and while they serve all of us they are responsible for delivering services to the most vulnerable people in our society. With that as your key driver you don’t suddenly start transforming things just because a load of middle class Neteratti start shouting about it. The implication of this is that the core functions of local government will not change quickly or significantly over a short timescale. What will happen is that certain functions will move outside of government, and we see this happening already, and it will move into the realm of the Neteratti.

What Should Be In A Digital Inclusion Conference?

I first wrote about this way back in May 2009 in response to the Digital Inclusion Conference 2009. which I thought was pretty good as conferences go. Given the discussion on Twitter on 21st September I thought it would be a good time to bring some of it back to the top of the blog [...]

Digital Inclusion 2009, What About 2010?

In May 2009 I attended the second Digital Inclusion Conference in London. It was a big affair with lots of people, Members from both the Lords and Parliament and The EU. I felt that there were lessons to be learned and decided to say so.