Networked Neighbourhoods

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 existing knowledge about [...]

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 [...]

By way of a pre-launch of the London’s Digital Neighbourhoods research, Hugh Flouch contributed to a couple of conferences this week. On Wednesday Hugh was at RIBA speaking at e-democracy 09, the UK’s main conference on e-democracy which brought together the European e-participation community in London. Other speakers included My Society’s Tom Steinberg and Will [...]

On 28th & 29th October,  Siôn Simon MP the UK Culture Minister invited a small group of people to the Department of Culture Media to discuss the future of local media in the UK. The aim was to identify specific actions the government could take to ensure a healthy online local news sector including both traditional [...]

Back in 2003, blogger Phil Windley published an article with the eye-catching title I’ve used for this article. He was picking up on Don Tapscott’s now standard work about one of the key implications of the media revolution on the corporate world. (The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business). In reviewing [...]

Writing on the Gartner blog network this week, Andrea Di Maio, explained that we need to rethink our perspective on Government 2.0: The problem is that government 2.0 is not about organizations and institutions. It is about the way in which constituents aggregate and socialize knowledge in ways that change their expectations and how they [...]

On Wednesday this week the Networked Neighbourhoods team ran an afternoon workshop on behalf of the Capital Ambition team at London Councils. The workshop brought together key figures from London Councils, the GLA, Government Office for London, the Leadership Centre, London boroughs and community development workers around the issue of how London’s burgeoning network of [...]