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I've been writing a lot at Socialreporter about the Big Society plans promoted by the Conservatives, and now adopted by the new coalition government - backstory here. The plans mean doing more with less public funding, with promised opportunities for charities, social entrepreneurs and volunteers, and a role for social technology both in empowerment and service improvements.

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While looking at an old site I set up back in the 1990s I came across A manifesto for online communities, written by a group of us back in 1999, and published by the BBC as part of its Webwise campaign. It's a sort of early unofficial digital inclusion plan.

In the week of the

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I've just posted this over on socialreporter, and thought it might be of interest because it updates the work Iris Lapinski reported earlier. Congratulations to Iris and all at CDI for securing funding from Dell and putting together such an innovative project.




Young people looking for jobs and new skills ... community problems needing inno… Continue

The GovCamp event on Saturday was a terrific opportunity to ask the assembled tech and policy experts, innovators and creative disruptors, how they thought we might get more user involvement in the development of digital public services to improve quality, and/or save money. It's a project we are working on for Consumer Focus, as… Continue

Following a critical review of Directgov - the Government's central online portal - the official consumer champion Consumer Focus promised a campaign to ensure that users of digital public services get a better experience in future.
What's needed to achieve this, Consumer Focus believes, is a stronger user perspective on digital service delivery from the very start.
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