An online notebook
An online notebook
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Reaping the benefits of shared services – Interesting interview with @terryhuggins on the shared services arrangement between South Holland and East Lindsay councils. UK IT Strategy Sets the Pace for…
Continuing the posts about local digital communities, here are a couple of links to interesting research and publications on the subject, which I’ve been giving a re-read recently. The Online Neighbourhood Networks Study – from Hugh Flouch and Kevin Harris.…
Many thanks to Will Perrin from Talk About Local, who basically did my job for me in a comment on my last post about local digital communities and economies. The thrust of my post was that having a lively digital…
Apologies for using the word ecosystems – I just couldn’t be bothered thinking of anything less naff. So earlier I blogged about the ways NESTA identified that government can help support local digital activity. I mentioned that there are many…
I’m increasingly interested in how creative collaborations between small suppliers, public services and organisations from other sectors can come together to solve problems in an open innovation-y sort of way. The digital arena is probably one of the best places…
A quick post as I am preparing my slides for the knowledge management talk I’m delivering on Thursday. In the slides, one of the key points is that the internet from the very beginning was designed as a tool for…
Will, Dom and Kalv are starting something that has the potential to become really rather cool. So where are we going with this? Well we want to know if hyperlocal people in the UK are up for some sort of…
My local authority, Kettering Borough Council, is doing some great work in the democratic engagement field, firstly by taking part in an excellent nationwide democracy project, and also by promoting local online communities. First up, Kettering is taking part in…