I am an academic researcher. (So we are urged to admit at Academics’ Anonymous meetings.) Academics are accused of being in ivory towers; of not understanding the real world in which practitioners operate; of indulging in all sorts of abstruse theory. And sometimes these accusations are at least partly justified. But what do e-democracy practitioners [...]
I’ve just returned from a two-day conference in Amsterdam, organised jointly by Amsterdam University’s School of Communication (ASCOR), which is the biggest communications school in Europe, and Leeds University’s Institute of Communications Studies (ICS), which is the biggest communications school in the UK. We were talking about the changing nature of political communication. Not only [...]
The Hub in Bristol is part of a network of physical and virtual work spaces connecting social innovators around the world. They have recently launched a new programme of free lunchtime events at 35 King Street in Bristol.
Wednesday 20th February – 1pm – Learning Lunch
Global Ethics & Human Rights – Christien Van Dan Anker
The Community Champions Fund has supported literally thousands of individuals across the country to get exciting and creative new projects off the ground in their communities.
Supported by the Department for Education and Skills (now Deptartment for Children, Schools and Families), this fund will end in March 2008, and there are no plans to replace it.
The [...]
Plans are underway for an exciting storytelling workshop in Henbury, early next month. It’s hoped the workshop will take place at the Brentry Lodge Youth Centre, Machin Road, Henbury Bristol BS10 7HQ. Actual dates still to be confirmed.
As the BBC’s main representaive on the Connecting Bristol Bid it was always my hope to see best practice in how to use digital [...]
James Martin will be talking about his new book ‘The Meaning of the 21st Century’ at lunchtime on 26 September 2006, in the Wills Memorial Building in the University of Bristol.
The Wired Society, which James published in 1977, contained remarkably accurate and timely descriptions of the use of computers [...]