Thank You Professor Stephen Coleman, Welcome Makala Cheung
April 6, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Digital Challenge, Bristol, South Bristol, Guest Bloggers , trackbackI would like to thank Professor Stephen Coleman for being this week’s guest blogger on Connecting Bristol. Who could have predicted that we would have such a lively (and for some, strangely cathartic) discussion? I am sure that Stephen and his colleagues in the Centre for Digital Citizenship at Leeds University will note any further contributions that appear in the threads he has in itiated over the next week or so.
The International Centre for Local e-Democracy, ICELE, has been the focus of much of this week’s discussion. It is positive that the centre can still attract such a high level of interest. However, we have not heard from the centre’s staff team or Board directly. We would, of course, be delighted if ICELE wished to be a guest blogger at some time in the near future… perhaps to put forward a different side of the story?
But for now, I am delighted to introduce Makala Cheung who will be the Connecting Bristol guest blogger for the coming week.
Makala is Press and Communications Officer at Knowle West Media Centre and is proud to be a local resident. Makala says, “I work in the area I live in - Knowle West. I love that I can walk to work, feel connected to my local community, and I can tackle my work from a residents as well as workers perspective. I love the Media Centre, because it supports my personal and career growth and learning, just as it does for the community”
Makala shares her own story here in a digital story that she produced to accompany Bristol’s Digital Challenge bid.
Makala will be blogging live as the new state-of-the-art and environmentally friendly Knowle West Media Centre officially open to the community with help from Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA Whilst at the Cabinet Office, Matthew initiated the Digital Challenge, inadvertently creating the process that led to Connecting Bristol and the DC10plus. If only he’d known…
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