One year ago, E-Government Bulletin published a special report on BeNeighbors.org, an initiative from the pioneering non-profit E-Democracy.org to connect communities in two neighbouring US cities – Minneapolis and St Paul, known as the Twin Cities – using online forums (see E-Gov Bulletin 346: http://bit.ly/XnE5T0). Funded with a 625,000 US Dollar grant, the project had ... Read More
Archive for the ‘social inclusion’ Category
Evolving the networked neighbourhood: BeNeighbors.org one year on
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013Tristan Parker | Tags: BeNeighbors.org, Community networking, E-Democracy.org, Minneapolis, Online forums, St Paul, Steven Clift
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Digital Literacy Portakabin Looks to Keep On Trucking in 2013
Monday, February 11th, 2013A grassroots digital inclusion project that toured the UK with an internet station in a portable cabin, helping residents increase their computer skills, is looking to start up again during 2013 and has put a call out for host destinations. Our Digital Planet ( http://bit.ly/VICWRV ) was run by social investment body Nominet Trust during ... Read More
Tristan Parker | Tags: Digital inclusion, Our Digital Planet
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“Crowdfunding” For Town’s Free Wi-Fi Project
Monday, December 10th, 2012A project to equip a town centre with free Wi-Fi is on track to meet its target fund after setting out to be “crowdfunded” online, E-Government Bulletin has learned. The “Make Mansfield Your HotSpot” project was developed by Mansfield Business Improvement District, a partnership between the council and local business community. It is being run ... Read More
Tristan Parker | Tags: Community Wi-Fi, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, Spacehive
Posted in Community networking, Mobile technology, News, QR Codes, social inclusion | 1 Comment »
Technology Is Least Of The Challenges For Online Engagement
Monday, December 10th, 2012By Vineeta Dixit The advent of the internet, social media and mobile devices have changed the way citizens can engage with each other and with their governments. Across the world, governments are facing challenges to their legitimacy as citizens express a rising disquiet with corruption and non-responsiveness. In India, many innovative projects are underway using ... Read More
Tristan Parker | Tags: Citizen engagement, e-democracy, India, Online engagement
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New Island Horizons: IslandGovCamp
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012The first GovCamp specifically to focus on the challenges of digital participation in island communities, IslandGovCamp 2012, took place in Orkney (and on the internet) recently, writes Sweyn Hunter. It was organised by the Orkney ICT Forum, a professional association for people and organisations offering web, ICT and media and communications services in Orkney, which ... Read More
Tristan Parker | Posted in Community networking, e-democracy, social inclusion | 1 Comment »
Special Report: BeNeighbors.org – The Power of the Networked Neighbourhood
Monday, March 26th, 2012Whether it’s advising a concerned mother on how to slow down local traffic or boosting takeaway pizza sales to kick-start a restaurant business, a new network of community forums is proving the real-life benefits that networked neighbourhoods can have for local communities and their residents. Developed by Steven Clift, founder of the non-profit community networking ... Read More
Tristan Parker | Tags: BeNeighbors.org, Community, e-democracy, Online forums
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‘Internet Buttons’ Wins Technology4Good Innovation Prize
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011A service allowing anyone to set up a personalised web page of ‘buttons’ to help relatives, older people or anyone who is new to the internet to navigate the web has won the innovation category at last week’s first ever UK ‘Technology4Good’ awards. ‘Internet buttons’ helps people create a page containing large coloured panels and ... Read More
Dan Jellinek | Posted in social inclusion | No Comments »
Technology is Key Enabler in ‘Giving White Paper’
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011Online charitable donation platforms on central government websites and a financial boost for the UK’s online volunteering database are among measures set out in the government’s recent ‘Giving White Paper’ ( http://bit.ly/ivkKVa ), aimed at making it easier for people to give time and money to good social causes. The first trial for online donation ... Read More
Tristan Parker | Posted in News, social inclusion | No Comments »
Volunteer Pool To ‘Crowd-Source’ Web Accessibility
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010An online service helping web users with disabilities report accessibility problems by linking them with thousands of tech-savvy volunteers is to be launched later this year by digital inclusion charity Citizens Online. A trial version of ‘Fix the Web’, sub-titled ‘crowd-sourcing e-accessibility’, was unveiled at this week’s Web Accessibility London Unconference 2010 by Dr Gail ... Read More
Dan Jellinek | Posted in Accessibility, News, social inclusion | No Comments »
Conference report: PEP-NET Summit, Hamburg – Citizens’ Voice
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010When Bernd Reinert, State Secretary at the City of Hamburg’s Ministry of Science and Research, opened last week’s meeting of PEP-NET, the Pan European eParticipation Network, he had two stories to tell of high-profile local online citizen debates that had taken place in recent years. Both had centred on specific proposals – the first, to ... Read More
Dan Jellinek | Posted in e-democracy, social inclusion | 2 Comments »
