Would you like more digital engagement knowledge-sharing events?
Well, the pilot digital engagement discussions are over. Should we do more?
I only organised three and still haven’t managed to blog about two of them yet. Still, they were good: Simon Whitehouse talked about ‘Policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey‘ and Ordnance Survey OpenData, I looked at the Hansard Society’s recent report ‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement‘ and Stuart Harrison discussed SOCITIM’s ‘Better Connected 2010′ report on council websites.
So would you like me to organise another set of these? There’s been a suggestion that we look at Digital Britain, although it’s more relevant now to discuss it in the context of the new, controversial Digital Economy Act. We could also look at the digital engagement policies of whoever’s in power after the election.
If I do do more of these I will want to stick firmly to the theme of digital civic engagement, but I’m happy for them to be more focussed on public policy if that’s where people want them to go.
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I would attend a talk by someone involved with OpenlyLocal or MySociety etc about how hyperlocal sites can integrate local data from their sites.
That Simon would do a good talk on using Yahoo Pipes to integrate diverse data into a hyperlocal website.
Mike Cummins
Mike, I’m deliberately steering away from workshops and ‘how to’ sessions and from inviting people to talk about their work, as these things are catered for elsewhere (such as at social media surgeries, LocalGovCamps and Talk About Local events). The sessions I’m interested in organising are for local folk to share their understanding of other people’s research or policies.
Having said that, there are people in Birmingham who are involved with MySociety and OpenlyLocal who might be prepared to share their knowledge of government policy (for example).
Michael