Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web The World of GovCraft « Carl’s Notepad I started to think about how Government in general could be seen as a game so that we could not only engage people in the problems and challenges we all face but actually inspire them to be part of [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Ceci n’est pas une pipe I know that digital inclusion is not a magic bullet but equally I do not believe that digital inclusion is a means of doing the same thing but doing it for less cost. I know that there needs to be a [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 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 [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 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 [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 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 [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 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 [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 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 serving [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 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 [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 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 [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 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 [...]