A quick cross post of something Steph put up on the MoreOpen blog, highlighting the great events funded in part by UKGC11.
At the beginning of March, we announced a small grant scheme using sponsorship from the UKGovcamp in January 2011 to help seed-fund a batch of further such events around the country. We had some great applications, and here’s the list of who we’ve funded so far:
We Are What We Tweet
8 April 2011
As part of the Social Media as Practise course as MA students of Social Media at Birmingham City University, the class staged a one day event looking examining the context of social media use and how it can bring governments and citizens together.
Recipient: Chioma Agwuegbo
Received: £300
ShropCamp
19 April 2011
Focused on communities and services. How can we use social media and open data to help service providers to work more effectively at a local level?
Recipient: Ben Proctor
Received: £600
MailCamp
12 May 2011
MailCamp is a free, one-off show & tell event on 12 May for people interested in how the public sector uses email marketing, newsletter and alerts to engage its audiences.
Recipient: Steph Gray
Received: £600
YouthWorkOnline unconference
21 May 2011
This one-day free open space event brings together practitioners from youth work, participation and voluntary youth projects with digital media developers and experts to share ideas and practice, to explore what the digital world means for young people’s lives, and for services seeking to support young people as they navigate growing up in a connected world.
Register at: http://cgen11.eventbrite.com/
Recipient: Tim Davies
Received: £600
Localgovcamp
18 June 2011
LocalGovCamp is coming back to its spiritual home, Birmingham, this June – and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever. 200 of the most innovative and creative people in the local government sector will be coming together on a Saturday to talk about making things better – sometimes with technology, sometimes not.
Register at: http://localgovcamp2011.eventbrite.com/
Recipient: Dave Briggs
Received: £1,000
LearnPod
13 July 2011
LearnPod aims to debate the use of technology and innovation in learning, predominantly in the post-16 education context.
Register at: http://learnpod11.eventbrite.com
Recipient: Kevin Campbell-Wright
Received: £500
July/August 2011 TBC
A one day pratical & sharing event for those who don’t quite fit in with central gov, are a long way from local gov and also don’t quite click with the events in higher education, museums or the charity sector. Reclaiming the word ‘quango’ for a positive, rather than a focus for scorn.
Recipient: Matt Jukes
Received: £400
ScotGovCamp
September 2011, TBC
ScotGovCamp is a self organised unconference for people who work in and around government in Scotland.
Recipient: Lesley Thomson
Received: £500
North London LocalGovCamp
TBC
A North London localgovcamp event, inviting people who are involved with related projects, focusing on North London boroughs – Camden, Islington, Haringey, Barnet, etc.
Recipient: Anke Holst
Received: £300
RuralCamp
TBC
Recipient: Dave Briggs
Received: £200
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Ten spin-off projects ain’t bad going, touching maybe another 1000 people and keeping the govcamp buzz and optimism going through the year. Good luck – and thanks in advance – to the organisers above, and another big thank you to the original sponsors of UKGovcamp whose patronage helped all of these get off the ground via MoreOpen. An organiser of one of the events reported:
You were the first people to offer us sponsorship and that managed to convince other people to take us seriously. Without your help we probably wouldn’t have been able to deliver the event at all.
There’s a few quid left (really, not very much) so if you’re inspired to run your own event and would like a bit of help getting it off the ground, you know where to go.