John Hayes from IDeA takes to the platform.
- IDeA is 11 years old, just like Google
- 353 authorities, providing 700 services each (in a Unitary authority), 2.1 million people working in local government
- All these people, services and authorities have things in common – hence the communities of practice
- Sustainable self-improvement, efficiency and vfm, connecting people to people
- The CoPs – 60k members, 75k monthly visits, 22k monthly contributions, 1.3k communities
- New experiences of networking in personal lives – ie consumer social media and social networking – need to replicate within work context
- Supporting new ways of working through Local by Social book and the councillors guide to digital engagement
- Recognising the change in behavior and relationships between people, practitioners and communities
- The cuts! The cuts!
- Knowledge hub – new CoPs, more open, more integrated. Mashups and benchmarking also feature and use of linked data
- Less of looking to the centre for ideas, more sharing good practice amongst practitioners
- Built with the sector, for the sector
[…] the next step. And not just because it’s a good idea, but out of economy and necessity. (DB liveblog post) Networked Innovation, John […]
[…] John Hayes outlined IDeA’s history of using social networking to support improvement, innovation and efficiency in local public services from the earliest days of IDeA Knowledge through communities of practice to the future: Knowledge Hub. It was a recognition that we have to use the same infrastructure and some of the same approaches of social innovators and social entrepreneurs to take knowledge sharing in local government to the next step. And not just because it’s a good idea, but out of economy and necessity. (DB liveblog post) […]