local engagement conference harte nov 09 v3

USING SOCIAL MEDIASome things that are happening in Birmingham that might be interesting

Dave HarteBirmingham City Universityhttp://daveharte.comhttp://twiter.com/davehartedave@daveharte.com

‘Creating economic success’ from digital technologies…

Today:

• Cognitive surplus

– ‘How do you find the time?’

• Hyperlocal blogging

– Talk about Local

• Doing things with data

– Hacking the city

Clay Shirky Cognitive Surplus

“Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat”

Clay Shirky – Cognitive Surplus

“Someone working alone, with really cheap tools, has a reasonable hope of carving out enough of the cognitive surplus, enough of the desire to participate, enough of the collective goodwill of the citizens, to create a resource you couldn't have imagined existing even five years ago.”

Thriving blogging scene

Court Lane Allotments- building community

Social Media Surgeries

http://bevocal.org.uk

• BeVocal gives gentle introductions to using data in new ways

• Aimed at enhancing understanding of new ways to use internet tools

Hyperlocal:

Cognitive surplus + free blogging platforms =

new ways for citizens to have their say

Timely Information

“RAW DATA NOW”

My raw data

A digital opportunity:

Cognitive surplus + Raw Data =

new and exciting area of the digital economy

Timely Information for Citizens:

CLG funded - freeing up data sources for citizens to create new resources.

Finding Birmingham’s geeks and feeding them raw data.

The Policy Context

Digital BritainLet’s get the plumbing right. Public service will drive take-up. Digital Participation.

Ofcom PSB reviewPeople value quality. Public service broadcasting can be online.

The Policy Context

Power of InformationPublic sector meets active citizenship

Push to free up data

Transforming Public Service“Digital Government will need to become genuinely ‘of the web’, not simply ‘on the web’. That means designing new services and transactions around the web platform rather than adapting paper-based systems.”

(Digital Britain)

HACKING THE CITY

Summary

Cognitive surplus: There’s a significant change happening in users they are:

Creating their own local communication tools

Building new internet resources

Doing the stuff you thought you had to do

Linking to the digital economy - supporting new digital businesses

Summary

Fishermen, tools etc. etc.