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Digital Community Film Making: A Checklist for Discussion

A Checklist of 30 Questions to support the community film-making process - from first ideas to mass distribution.

1. Is your film defined by the collective engagement of all participants?

2. Is it a group narrative with multiple visions and voices?

3. Are there elements which are collaborative… Continue

Added by Ian McCormick on May 11, 2010 at 4:12pm — No Comments

Digital Inclusion ten years ago

Looking back at old site of mine, I came across a A manifesto for online communities, written by a group of us back in 1999, and published by the BBC as part of its Webwise campaign. It's a sort of early unofficial digital inclusion plan. Here's the summary. (I've written a longer post

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Added by David Wilcox on March 9, 2010 at 10:44pm — 1 Comment

What do we expect from NDI10?

Having been to National Digital Inclusion for the last three years I'm looking for something that's grounded in people's experience. I accept that we have to have the politics, the funders have to have their day and the funded have to show progress but unlike three year's ago digital inclusion is much more mainstream.

This is an opportunity to meet, greet and share. I'm looking not just for successes I'm looking for lesson's learrned. Who achieved great outcomes for individuals

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Added by Paul Nash on March 3, 2010 at 9:09am — 1 Comment

Media Trust Community Voices grants - applications invited (England)

You may already be aware of the Media Trust Community Voices grants which are currently open for applications (info has been posted on various lists today, 29th Jan - please pass on to anyone who might be eligible). The Media Trust will be selecting 26 community projects (in England) to receive funding of either: ~ £1,500 (10 projects), ~ £7,000 (10 projects) or ~ £14,000 (6 projects), as well as support fro… Continue

Added by Cathy Aitchison on January 29, 2010 at 7:14pm — No Comments

We are recruiting an education manager: exiting job with young people and mobile apps

I hope this is ok to post this here, since it is very much in the area of work of the network... Join one of the most successful social enterprises in digital inclusion to create and set-up a new exciting training programme to enable young people in low-income communities to use, design and develop mobile and web-based applications for social change and community action. Founded in 1995 by Rodrigo Baggio, the Centre for Digital Inclusion (CDI) is the pioneer of digital inclusion in the… Continue

Added by Iris Lapinski on December 8, 2009 at 1:47pm — 2 Comments

Event: Chain Reaction 2009, connect, collaborate, commit

Chain Reaction 2009 will take place on Thursday 12 November 2009 in London’s Canary Wharf Why are we bringing people together this year? In 2009 we reacted to a crisis. Now is our chance to move on, making new ideas for social change real. New ideas to build stronger economies and stronger communities across the UK. These Chain Reactions will start with you, on November 12th. They will involve government, business, charity, and ordinary people. Our speakers have a lot of great… Continue

Added by Laura Hyde on September 26, 2009 at 11:58am — No Comments

Local communities workshop September 21

We can now offer full details of the workshop being organised by DCLG and the Social by Social team in London on September 21, when programme leaders inside and outside government will get together with practitioners to discuss the use of social tech at local level. We plan to do some mapping of who is doing what, and then generate some lively discussion about what national programmes can offer - and what help people running local communities and blogs need. Even if you can't get to the workshop… Continue

Added by David Wilcox on September 9, 2009 at 2:47pm — 1 Comment

"From desktop computers to mobile apps for social change" - CDI event (London, 18 Sep)

The Centre for Digital Inclusion (CDI) proudly presents: From desktop computers to mobile apps for social change – A study of UK digital inclusion and our vision for the future After months of research and interviews CDI recently finished its study of digital inclusion & community engagement in t… Continue

Added by Iris Lapinski on September 2, 2009 at 7:47pm — No Comments

Losing Faith - Hopefully a temporary blip!

"Nous (pronounced /ˈnuːs/, Greek: νοῦς or νόος) is a philosophical term for mind or intellect. Outside of a philosophical context, it is used, in English, to denote "common sense," with a different pronunciation (/naʊs/).” – Wikipedia. One of my many faults is that I have no political nous. I am devoid of nous. Despite long years in local government, no nous! It explains, perhaps, why I’m more practical in nature, a doer, an organiser but not a political animal. That doesn’t mean that I don’t h… Continue

Added by Paul Nash on August 16, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Government offers to convene local communities workshops

I started up a group on this site because of interest in "hyperlocal" - the use of social tech to help people find a voice and generally do good stuff locally. That got some quick support, and in order to give us the functions we need I've now created new Ning local communities network. Do come and join us - you can use the same login as this site.… Continue

Added by David Wilcox on August 3, 2009 at 9:40pm — 3 Comments

Local stories make the case for digital whatever

A trip yesterday to Stoke-on-Trent reminded me yet again that it's the way that individuals and groups make use of free, simple tools that brings to life the case for digital inclusion, digital mentors, digital Britain, hyperlocal ... whatever. It really shows how you can do good stuff with new stuff. The occasion was a pilot workshop run by… Continue

Added by David Wilcox on July 28, 2009 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Managing beyond web 2.0 - Article from McKinsey Quarterly

Hello all. I found this interesting article that explains a model called LEAD (Listen, Experiment, Apply, Develop) for digital and social media interaction. The article is from McKinsey Quarterly - July edition. Hope you enjoy it. It’s hardly news that the Internet has evolved into the primary vehicle for communication, information, and commerce. But in a surprising twist, today’s online customers—as both producers and consumers of their own content and services—ferociously… Continue

Added by Alex Tovar on July 21, 2009 at 1:28pm — No Comments

Looking for a digital inclusion researcher to work in Yorkshire...

A job that might interest members or their friends... I can provide a little more detail if you'd like to learn more. Ann Digital Inclusion Researcher 2 year fixed term, full-time Salary range: £22k - £24k The Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering & Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University is seeking to appoint a KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) Associate in collaboration with Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, to be located in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The role of the associate… Continue

Added by Ann Light on June 27, 2009 at 6:55pm — No Comments

Anyone else working on local community sites?

The blog posts today from Jo Crumplin and David Barrie confirm for me the growing interest in using blog and Ning sites for local communities. Anyone else working on that front? Is this something we should look at in more depth on this network? The RSA is running a day's session on July 10… Continue

Added by David Wilcox on June 27, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Digital Butetown: building the community collective

Over the coming weeks, you'll be seeing stuff around the place around a start-up project called Digital Butetown, tagged #digitalbutetown and the subject of a Google Group we've just set up and would love you to join and follow. Butetown in Cardiff is better known as the old docklands area of Tiger Bay. It has a community of 14,0… Continue

Added by David Barrie on June 27, 2009 at 5:58pm — 5 Comments

How Ning can help pull communities together

Just read Chris's blog - What I think about Twitter, which promted me to right my very first blog (so bear with me). Since first coming across Ning earlier this year, we immediately realised how it could work as a connection tool, our first and most successful creation is the Pegswood Ning. Linking the Centre, the various groups that use it and centre users together in what I call in interactive newspaper. As quick as a flash, when Margaret's third child was born (this is a very brave lady who s… Continue

Added by Jo Crumplin on June 27, 2009 at 11:54am — 10 Comments

CDI feasibility study - digital inclusion & community activism

As promised to David Wilcox I have now set-up a blog to cover the research and analysis work I'm doing for CDI to see if we can add anything to the UK including: - UK landscape on digital inclusion, empowerment through technology and community action - at least to some extent - Interesting initiatives in the space Any comments welcome! Just some short background on… Continue

Added by Iris Lapinski on June 22, 2009 at 3:09pm — 2 Comments

Where do we talk about all this?

Despite there being so much still to do on digital inclusion - as Helen Milner summarises here - it's easy to forget how far we've come over the past decade. However, I wonder if we are in danger… Continue

Added by David Wilcox on June 15, 2009 at 10:30am — 11 Comments

Going Euro!

Did you get very wet this weekend? I stayed in and did stuff, however, it was an opportunity to catch up with this and that. I took time out to go Euro and spent some time on the ePractice site. The view of eInclusion is very different 20 miles over the channel and beyond. I'm not sure what inspired me - probably the lack of articles about social capital and communities and real people - so I penned a few words, borrowing from things I'd already done and posted it. For the record it got 75 read… Continue

Added by Paul Nash on June 9, 2009 at 7:52pm — 1 Comment

The Empty Room Syndrome

That's the thing about Twitter, you just never know where comments and conversations will lead, or how sometimes you pick up on a Tweet and follow through and start digging a bit deeper. I've been thinking about this subject for a while and the possible negative impact it could have on Digital Engagement. Anyway - @dominiccampbell posted a Tweet last night about a hyper-local community reporting and campaigning blog he'd foun… Continue

Added by Paul Webster on June 3, 2009 at 10:51am — 4 Comments