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 […]
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 […]
We are starting work on an ICT Foresight report which will look at the ways in which some of the new information and communication technologies are shaping issues of accountability for the voluntary and community sector.
We are looking for research and ideas and we are particularly interested in:
user empowerment - the potential for more […]
David Wilcox has posted some interesting thoughts on the impact of ICT on membership associations.
It used to be that you joined associations because it was a way of meeting like-minded people and getting help, facilities, information and other things difficult or costly to organise for yourself. These days it is much easier to find […]
The sense trend index recently alerted me to Google trends, which allows you to compare up to 5 terms and see the volume of searches across a time period of your choosing. Search results are returned as a time plotted graph together with details of the city or region from which the search originated. […]
The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and participatory media, says Andreas Kluth in the Economist’s recent supplement Among the audience – a survey of new media. A series of articles look at blogs, wikis, podcasting and journalism.
We will be exploring the impact of these for the voluntary […]
This deliberately provocative question is the title of a seminar I am organising at NCVO’s annual conference on 21 Feb. Debating the question will be Will Davies (formerly head of ippr’s Digital Manifesto programme), Milica Howell (Hansard Society’s e-democracy programme), David Wilcox and Karl Wilding (NCVO’s Head of Research and my boss!)
Of course, I […]
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, […]