Networked Neighbourhoods

Networked Neighbourhoods organised a roundtable discussion on local websites last week, to take advantage of a visit to London by US e-democracy pioneer Steven Clift and to offer some early findings from our London study.
With the session chaired by the GLA’s Emer Coleman, we sought to offer an easy-going discussion given that it was a hot [...]

Networked Neighbourhoods has begun a new project looking at how local formal and informal care networks can use social media to help older people age in place. Funding comes from the IDeA’s Efficiency and Transformation Capital Fund and we’ll be working with Haringey Council and Age Concern Haringey.
The project aims to reduce the burden on [...]

This week we ran a workshop for council officers across London, to explore the issues raised by neighbourhood websites from their point of view. The meeting included short presentations on the three case study sites, Brockley Central, East Dulwich Forum and Harringay Online and some vigorous discussion from the participants.
A short account of the workshop, [...]

The BBC has been taking a growing interest in citizen-led local websites, the latest instance being an article published today by BBC Technology Correspondent, Jane Wakefield.
Jane uses the three sites being studied in our London’s Digital Neighbourhoods research – Brockley Central, East Dulwich Forum and Harringay Online – to help build the argument that politicians’ [...]

The latest Pew Internet Project report has just been published, on the topic of ‘neighbors online’.
It’s based on telephone interviews with 2,258 Americans, and while I didn’t read anything that hit the wow-box it certainly helps us think about communication at neighbourhood level. The questions asked about face-to-face interaction with neighbours, telephone contact, and a [...]

Race Online 2012 aims to bring people and organisations together to improve the life chances of the 10 million people who have never been online, particularly the four million who are also socially and economically excluded.
We’re enthusiastic about the aims of the movement and so have signed up as an official partner.

The first background papers have been published in the London’s Digital Neighbourhoods study.
The first is an initial typology of the kinds of site that can be found, and attempts to distinguish and relate them according to purpose and interactive style.
The second is a more extended paper which attempts to summarise [...]

We’ve just added a page about the Digital Neighbourhoods project to Capital Ambition’s Connected London area of the London Councils website. We’ll be adding project updates  as we go along.

Hugh Flouch appeared alongside former London mayor Ken Livingstone on the BBC’s Daily Politics show, 19 January, as part of a programme about the political implications of social media. Hugh spoke about the Networked Neighbourhoods current research project with London Councils, as well as the neighbourhood site he established a couple of years ago, Harringay [...]

Seems like you gotta run to keep up with webantics these days (and don’t we love it).  As much as it may reflect my lagging a little in this particular  race, the Deep Web is a new one me.  Here’s how those klever folk at Kosmix describe it:
The Deep Web is the portion of the [...]