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Introduction and the Festival of Ideas

by Jeff 06/05/2008 in Bristol

Hi everyone and welcome to the first vlog in this series – Jeff McWhinney here – I am the MD of a social enterprise, Significan’t (Sign if I can’t), which assists all those of you out there who are manually challenged, unable to use sign language especially those providing a front line public [...]

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Knowle West Media Centre

by Makala 07/04/2008 in Bristol

I’m Press and Communications worker for the Knowle West Media Centre. We offer cutting edge media services and facilities from our new environmental building, and exciting hands on learning alongside professional practitioners. We are strongly embedded in the local community and run various groups for residents, especially young people.
My role involves doing press and [...]

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The UK e-democracy debate – getting stale?

by stephencoleman 03/04/2008 in Bristol

Andy Williamson has suggested that ‘the UK eDemocracy debate is a bit stale, and particularly so around local government.’ It would be interesting to pursue this, not with a view to reflecting upon its staleness, but in the hope of moving the agenda forward.

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Third International Political Forum on eDemocracy

by Kevin 02/04/2008 in Bristol

eVoice is a four year EU funded project developing best practice in e-Participation. The focus has been on examining how new channels of communication can run alongside and support existing ones to make sure everyone can participate in civic life in the best way for them.
The evoice project has organised its third International Political Forum [...]

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The BBC, Democracy & The Internet – Job Done?

by Stephen Hilton 01/04/2008 in Bristol

As we have heard in comments on this blog, the 1930’s were highly risky times. In 1932 the BBC moved to Portland Place, London and citizens passively consumed whatever media content Broadcasting House doled-out to them. Skip forward 76 years and the BBC has decided to close down its user-generated campaign site, the BBC Action [...]

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No 10 goes on the web offensive

by Matt 01/04/2008 in Bristol

I thought that as we are getting all political on Connecting Bristol at the moment, I would share this with you! I noticed that we are now being followed by No10 Downing street on our Twitter site at the moment. (For more info on Twitter take a look here.)
The No10 webmaster does admit that “Downing [...]

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Introducing Professor Stephen Coleman

by Stephen Hilton 28/03/2008 in Bristol

Some people effortlessly span seemingly irreconcilable divides, for example, by being both anti-establishment and mainstream; a leading academic and a man of the people; a commentator on technology and perhaps also a bit of a technophobe?
Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication at Leeds University, is one such enigma and personally I am delighted that [...]

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Does the End of Civil Serf mean Civil silence?

by Matt 27/03/2008 in Bristol

Civil Serf, the civil servant secret blogger, was silenced recently after Whitehall launched a hunt to find her. Whatever your political persuasion, and some of her posts were not flattering to her employers, one has to ask, surely, that isn’t a blog part of free speech? By definition, it is the [...]

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Why e-democracy matters

by Andy 20/03/2008 in Bristol

One of the criticisms of e-democracy initiatives – for example, politicians using sites like Youtube – is that they represent a society dumbing down, disengaging with policy and embracing trivia.
Then you see what’s happening in the current US election.
In the last 24 hours, Barack Obama’s speech on race in American politics has received over 1.6m [...]

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