Dec 1
I’m in a time warp, get me out of here
So why bother to register a concern in the face of an entrepreneurial success story? It’s the box ticking mentality of the English political establishment that has me worried. The pressure will be lifted from our principle service provider, local politicians will see a reduction in their mail as broadband issues disappear and the UK government can look a financial saving in the eye and say “thank heaven for that!” let’s move on.
Mar 14
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 [...]
Dec 12
A Holy Trinity
On Friday Martha Lane-Fox Tweeted: “RT NewStatesman xmas issue: @Marthalanefox has agreed to be our celebrity subscriber of the week : HELP, not feeling v funny or inspired!” Along with I have no idea how many others I put forward my suggestions: access to the knowledge society as a fundamental right not as [...]
Nov 16
Social Innovation and the Knowledge Society – Now is the Time.
The announcement, on Friday, that our local council was considering cutting the most expensive bus routes struck a chord with me. I remember when the bus services were centralised, it was a good example of target driven policy making. Community transport had been offering a service to people for years and they had it down [...]
Nov 10
You Don't Have to be Big – Just Smart
On the first Monday in November I went to “Birmingham’s Big Debate”. IT was held at the ICC in Birmingham, one of my favourite buildings. The subheading for the event was “Can the creative sector save the UK economy?” I went because I received an invite through colleagues at Digital Birmingham and I am interested [...]
Sep 21
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 [...]
Aug 28
Citizen Shock
Two things have prompted me to commit these thoughts to print: the idea that Social Media is nothing more than an enabler for Gov 20 – a comment doing the rounds of #Gov20 last week – and the idea that people have disengaged from politics and need to be somehow re-connected.
Aug 20
Social Capital and Innovation
Sometimes, things just “jump” into place. This was just one of those occasions when the term social capital came into the conversation stream and it occurred to me that Social Capital, in all of its form, was one of the things that we had lost sight of.
Aug 19
Going Euro
Occasionally I cross post to the ePractice.eu site. There is some interesting work going on in Europe and some very good in depth research. This one was focussed on social capital and innovation.
