I have received another thinkpiece for our next report from Ross Ferguson of the Hansard Society. Ross has deliberately written a thought-provoking piece (as requested by me!) and is keen to hear other people’s thoughts.
Commons in Cyberspace
In 2001 Jay Blumler and Stephen Coleman set out a vision of a ‘Civic Commons in cyberspace’ (Blumler, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The speed of technological innovation is outrunning politicians’ attempts to keep pace, bringing radical changes to our lives before we can discuss the public interest issues, according to a senior government technologist, as reported by the e-government bulletin.
Ed Parsons, chief technology officer of the Ordnance Survey, was the keynote speaker at the launch of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]