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Social Innovator
We have created Social Innovator to bring together the people, experience and issues involved in designing, developing and growing new ideas that meet pressing unmet needs.
This material is intended to guide and support the practice of all those who can contribute to this social economy: policy [...]
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Events Leading to the Resignation of Mr Heath’s Administration on 4 March 1974
At 6.25 p.m. the Prime Minister left 10 Downing Street for Buckingham Palace. I went with him; and on the drive we neither of us said a word. There was so much, or nothing, left [...]
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Silver Bullets: Mapping digital exclusion
If we enclose as many points of social and digital exclusion as we can, by making a very big assumption we can guess where a digital inclusion initiative might have an impact. Let’s take a silver surfers club, a social media surgery or [...]
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The Government has got its head in a cloud
Mr Suffolk also believes civil servants and public sector workers should be more active on social networking sites. He runs a blog, although it hasn’t been updated for almost a month. “The more we can move to a dialogue [...]
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Local knowledge is everything – BankerVision
We seek to use systems to impose standards of service and uniformity across the offering. “People are unreliable!”, we scream as we write as much discretion away from users as possible, thinking, as we do so, that we are [...]
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Social Media and Young Adults | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines among those [...]
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A Free Internet, If We Can Keep It | Freedom to Tinker
Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and technologists will tend to seek legal solutions.
An open letter to the business – BankerVision
The best thing to do is treat your IT [...]
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Lost technologies « Janet’s Jottings
We are a very careless species, losing skills and knowledge constantly. We forget our past, or it is obliterated through natural disaster or human conflict. We have no or little idea of the technology of a few thousand years ago, and still less [...]
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An Amazing Citizen Service Anecdote
I am quite impressed. No email, no social software, no e-government here: A proof that service levels does not always relate to the use of technology.
Intranets and urban sprawl: a postcard from down under « Sharon O’Dea
Here’s are some ways to prevent [...]
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Seven ways to protect public services – Charles Leadbeater – The Guardian
In short, there are myriad ways for public services to help people more effectively, at lower cost. The alternative – a pared-back, rationed, often low-quality and low-cost version of an existing service – will just leave [...]