Tag: United Kingdom

Would you like more digital engagement knowledge-sharing events?

  • April 27, 2010 at 1:52 pm

  • 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 [...]

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

  • April 10, 2010 at 2:08 pm

  • 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  [...]

Using the internet for effective citizenship

  • March 1, 2010 at 8:45 pm

  • Today I had a post published on the British Computer Society’s Savvy Citizens website, in which I ponder the challenges and opportunities that the internet brings for effective citizenship. I won’t re-post it here, as I’m sure the BCS would much rather you read it on their blog than mine. Suffice to say I flag [...]

Young people see the media as powerful but don’t trust it: particularly not the tabloids

  • December 1, 2009 at 4:42 pm

  • Recent research reveals that young people in the UK have little faith in journalists, but see them as having the greatest influence on government decisions. And tabloid journalists, it seems, are the worst of a bad bunch. The research was undertaken last week by online pollsters YouGov, on behalf of the Citizenship Foundation. Almost 4,000 [...]

Young people don’t value the political power of social media, but they would vote

  • November 30, 2009 at 3:42 pm

  • According to new research, most young people aged 14-25 would be likely to vote in an election and would be more likely to if they could do so online. However, they don’t see social networking as particularly useful for furthering a cause, favouring instead an email to their Member of Parliament. A recent YouGov poll [...]