One of the characteristics of ICT highlighted in the article I recently posted, was its ability to bring people together to achieve a social aim, without the need for traditional voluntary and community organisations.
I was thinking about the implications of this when Tom Steinberg recently wrote to tell me about a major event on PledgeBank. […]
I spoke recently at the Hansard Society/Headstar e-democracy conference during a session on grass roots e-democracy.
You can read a write up of my speech here. I outlined some of the ways in which I think technology is changing civil society’s democratic role, in four areas:
Collective action
Social capital
Skills and empowerment
Access to communities
These themes […]
The ICT Foresight blog is now up and running!
My name is Megan Griffith and I’m a Research Officer at NCVO. There’s more info about me on the Who’s who page
This blog is the public face of a Foresight research project looking at the impact of ICT on the VCS. This means not only […]