Voluntary and community organisations play an essential role in bringing people together and building social capital, which in turn facilitates collective voice and collective action. Social capital is a term which describes networks and connections between people. It also describes the trust that is built between people and the spirit of reciprocity that […]
Tom Steinberg (of mySociety and a member of the ICT Foresight panel) has written a story to explain how he thinks VCOs could use the internet to campaign in a new way. The story is based on several characteristics of ICT:
Networking
Clustering by geography
User generated content
As Tom says “This is a […]
My question for the day: What will be the impact of open source software for voluntary and community organisations?
I wonder whether voluntary and community organisations, often without dedicated IT staff, are ready to use open source software. Several organisations, including East of England FOSS in the VCS and Midlands Open Source Technology, […]
Karl Wilding identified 10 trends in the use of ICT in the Third Sector Foresight Project’s annual analysis of the changing operating environment for voluntary and community organisations.
Productivity - ICT driving government efficiency gains
Ubiquity - new technologies increasingly embedded in everyday objects, transactions and processes
Familiarity - a generation of ‘digital natives’ who transact over the […]
Jo Twist writes that 2005 was the year of the digital citizen:
The article covers citizen journalism (tsunami, July 7 etc.) and podcasting by politicians and citizens here and in the US. However, I was most interested in a couple of questions Jo raises about consumer-led media and convergence of traditional and new media:
The question […]