Our second ICT Foresight report will look at ICT and social networks. Members of our advisory panel are writing short think-pieces on the impact of ICT. Below is the first of these, from Eleanor Burt. Comments are very welcome!
Don’t like your organisation’s campaigning policy? Switching is easy online!
Or, you could even […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
I posted a while back on the potential for VCOs to use open source software. I sounded a cautious note about whether organisations were ready to use open source and David Wilcox also raised a few challenges:
How far are staff in voluntary and community organisations likely to take the time and trouble to use […]
How can VCOs use ICTs to work more collaboratively? Ruralnet’s I-See-T project seeks to answer this question. They are running some free workshops to help voluntary and community organisations find out, try out and feed back on ways of using ICT for collaboration. The ICT Hub and NCVO’s Collaborative Working Unit […]
Eleanor Burt (a member of the ICT Foresight panel) recently raised the issue of e-personalisation:
There is an interesting discussion to be had on how ICTs are contributing to ‘personalisation’ against the backcloth of the Government’s growing enthusiasm for the voluntary sector and its proposals for the modernisation of public services.
Personalisation is a major theme for […]