Research sharing

Would you like more digital engagement knowledge-sharing events?

  • April 27, 2010 at 1:52 pm
  • Categories: Digital engagement,Events,Ramblings,Research sharing

  • 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 [...]

Socitim’s ‘Better Connected 2010′ report: what did it say? Join the discussion at Moseley Exchange

  • April 25, 2010 at 11:52 am
  • Categories: Digital engagement,Events,Research sharing

  • A few weeks ago Socitm released their Better Connected 2010 report on the quality of local council websites. Stuart Harrison has read the report, and in the last of our pilot digital engagement discussions he will share its insights and his thoughts on them. Socitm is the membership association for ICT professionals in Local Authorities [...]

‘Digital Citizens and Democratic Partipation’: discussion outcomes

  • April 20, 2010 at 8:15 am
  • Categories: Digital engagement,Research sharing

  • Last night I ran the second of my small-scale research sharing sessions, this time on the Hansard Society’s recent report ‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement‘. I hadn’t had time to plan properly (and still haven’t got around to blogging about Simon’s Ordnance Survey OpenData presentation from last week) but we still managed to have a long [...]

‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement’ report: what does it say? Come and discuss it at Moseley Exchange

  • April 16, 2010 at 5:08 pm
  • Categories: Research sharing

  • Earlier this week Simon Whitehouse enlightened us about Ordnance Survey OpenData (which I still haven’t blogged about); on Monday I will share my limited understanding of the Hansard Society’s recent report ‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement‘. It’s not the easiest report to make sense of: I would have liked fewer paragraphs full of percentages and [...]

Ordnance Survey OpenData: what is it? Come and discuss it at Moseley Exchange

  • April 10, 2010 at 2:08 pm
  • Categories: Research sharing

  • On Monday, the first of our three research sharing events will be looking at the Ordnance Survey’s OpenData initiative. For some time people have been crying out for OS data to be made freely available, and on 1 April Ordnance Survey announced the release of a load of it. On Monday Simon Whitehouse will be  [...]

Spreading knowledge of research into digital engagement

  • March 21, 2010 at 10:49 pm
  • Categories: Digital engagement,Research sharing

  • A lot has been going on recently with regard to digital inclusion and civic engagement. People keep publishing reports that I really ought to read for work, but just don’t have the time to; and even if I did, many of them are pretty impenetrable. So I’m going to spread the load. In April I’ll [...]