Panel member Nick Booth has blogged about the potential of excluding people as a way to make networks stronger, larger and more effective. He begins by citing research from the early 1990’s which found a correlation between the size of a human neocortex and how many others we can succesfully relate to:
Evolutionary Psychologist […]
A couple of weeks ago the ICT Foresight panel got together to talk about social networking. The term ‘Web 2.0′ was unsurprisingly used a great deal. One of our academic colleagues, John Taylor, suggested that it might be good to start by deciding what we actually meant by Web 2.0.
The clearest thing I’ve […]
Members of my expert panel have recently been discussing issues around ICT and accountability for one of our future reports. A big question, which has been posed here before, emerged. David Wilcox summarised it as ‘is technology essentially a tool within a (relatively) unchanging system, or is it likely to change the system(s)?’
This […]
Today we published the first in our series of ICT Foresight reports, which we wrote with Ross and Milica at the Hansard Society. This first report examines the impact of ICT on the sector’s ‘voice’ and representation roles by looking at the activities of consultation and campaigning. It explains technological, political and social […]
At our recent roundtable discussion on social networking we discussed how VCOs can use ICTs to engage supporters in new ways, rather than just asking them to give money. We think there’s probably a report to be written on ICT and fundraising that looks beyond online giving mechanisms and explores how ICT can help […]
Yesterday we had a fantastic day at NCVO discussing social networking, ICT and the voluntary and community sector.
Many interesting ideas emerged from our roundtable discussion (fortunately I recorded it!) Before we started I also put some quotes up on flip chart paper and asked people to respond by scribbling on post-it notes. Here […]