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Kind of Digital » Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Taming the Python – geting started programming on your Raspberry Pi Battle for the planet of the APIs Returning to Free Software: A Guide Robots and Robber Barons – NYTimes.com via @euan Onion Pi – Make a Raspberry Pi into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy! Why Java Is Still Relevant — I.M.H.O. … [Link]
Kind of Digital » Getting online by sharing memories in Lincolnshire
I’m delighted to be helping out Community Lincs, the rural community development charity where I serve as a trustee, with their Summer of Surfing activity during the first week of July. It’s a neat idea, to encourage people to have a go using the web by contributing a memory to a shared website, where a collection of Lincolnshire memories will … [Link]
Kind of Digital » A bit more on #networkedcllr
This morning’s round table, held by EELGA with the support of Public-i, was an enjoyable couple of hours, hearing about how councillors and others involved in local democracy see the future of the role and the impact the internet and social media will have on it. One of the best things about the beta Public-i report is that it takes … [Link]
mySociety » Transparency in policing – WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer talks to ACPO
Many mySociety projects rely on a team of volunteers to keep them going. FixMyTransport, WhatDoTheyKnow and Pledgebank may look like very simple sites that run themselves, but the truth is that there’s a lot of human intervention going on behind the scenes, keeping the wheels oiled. Our volunteer teams deal with masses of site admin, they discuss policies and future … [Link]
Kind of Digital » Recent writing elsewhere
I’ve been publishing a few bits of writing in places other than this blog lately. Here’s an article I wrote for our local newspaper – the first of what will hopefully be a regular series: Click to enlarge I’ve also written a couple of articles for the Business Lincolnshire website, which is run by the County Council. One is on … [Link]
Kind of Digital » What makes for a 21st century or networked councillor?
This week we ran a webchat on the What Next for Localism site in partnership with NALC, on the topic of 21st century councillors. You can read the archive via the CoverItLive widget on that site. On Monday next week, I’ll be popping down to Cambridge to take part in a morning’s round table discussion based on Public-i’s Networked Councillor … [Link]
Kind of Digital » Death of the filesystem
From Jan Senderek, the founder of Loom, a photo management startup: Kids today who start out with iPads and iPhones will never or rarely be in touch with a file or a folder. They won’t care about the type of data created or consumed on their devices. Apps are used to generate and consume content such as photos, emails, and … [Link]
Kind of Digital » My PTLLS micro teach lesson plan and materials
I’ve almost completed a course on Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, or PTLLS. It’s partly to help me improve the work I do in training and running workshops, but also as the first step in the journey to becoming a qualified teacher. I’m increasingly interested in the way that learning and education can be used in community … [Link]
Kind of Digital » Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: hackpad – neat collaboration / wiki / collaborative editing thingy The BBC’s hi-tech failure: Don’t Mention It Catch up with Doug Belshaw’s Open Badges Learning Hour – Learning Pool Geneva E-Participation Day: Open Data and International Organisations | Tim’s Blog Heidegger on technology, and technodeterminism Review: Facebook Home | MIT Technology … [Link]
mySociety » WhatDoTheyKnow Team Urge Caution When Using Excel to Depersonalise Data
mySociety’s Freedom of Information website WhatDoTheyKnow is used to make around 15 to 20% of FOI requests to central government departments and in total over 160,000 FOI requests have been made via the site. Occasionally, in a very small fraction of cases, public bodies accidentally release information in response to a FOI request which they intended to withhold. This has … [Link]
Intellitics » Blog » Top Posts May 2013
Once again, here are last month’s most popular posts: Participatory Budgeting in North America: Use of Technology 2012/2013 What Is Participatory Budgeting? Hello Europe: A Fresh Idea to Connect Europe And our overall top scorers: What Is Public Participation? What Is Public Participation? What Is Government 2.0? Thanks for your continued attention! [Link]
Kind of Digital » The movable museum of found objects
I’m spreading my wings a bit these days, trying to get involved in different pieces of work, in different fields. Not that I’ve given up on government, just that there’s other things I’d like to explore and have a go at as well. After all, there ought to be some advantage in being self (under) employed. So I’m really pleased … [Link]
Kind of Digital » Networks of Outrage and Hope
Video where the excellent Manuel Castells examines new social movements, new forms of change and political democracy in the global network society. [Link]
Kind of Digital » Open badges for learning
Great set of slides from Doug Belshaw explaining Open Badges. Can’t help but feel this could be a major win for – in particular – informal learning activity within communities. Open badges for learning: a new way to recognise skills and achievements (#cilips13) from Doug Belshaw [Link]
Kind of Digital » Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Toe and HTTPS | Electronic Frontier Foundation The Dark Side of E-Books To the internet giants, you’re not a customer. You’re just another user – by @jjn1 meandering thoughts on the NSA scandal from @zephoria inessential.com: How We Work Together Yocto Project | Open Source embedded Linux build system, package metadata … [Link]
Kind of Digital » The internet’s three virtues
According to Doc Searls and David Weinberger: No one owns it. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it. From World of Ends. [Link]
mySociety » FixMyZürich: FixMyStreet goes Swiss
It’s known for being one of the cleanest and most efficient cities on earth – but even Zürich suffers from potholes and graffiti. Zürich’s residents can now report infrastructure faults via their city council’s own dedicated installation of the FixMyStreet platform: Züri wie neu, which translates as ‘Zürich: Good As New’. For Zürich, it’s a new online channel for its … [Link]
Kind of Digital » Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: David Wilcox » As the Knowledge Hub faces closure, might a creative Twitter mob help with re-invention? the 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist Make and share useful lists | Gini Google Reader alternatives | Gini Some things I’ve learnt about public speaking | John Graham-Cumming Evan Williams on Building a Mindful … [Link]
The Great E-mancipator » The Cloud of Unknowing
I’m pleased to say that the International Journal of Technoethics has just published a paper by me entitled “The ‘Cloud’ of Unknowing – What a Government Cloud May and May Not Offer: A Practitioner Perspective”, International Journal of Technoethics 4(1) 1-10 January – June 2013. The abstract is as follows: “Cloud computing is increasingly ubiquitous in the consumer and private … [Link]
mySociety » Alaveteli gets an upgrade
Today, we are using the phrase “Alaveteli upgrade” rather a lot – and not just because it’s such a great tongue-twister. It’s also a notable milestone for our open-source community. Alaveteli is the software that underlies WhatDoTheyKnow, our Freedom of Information website. The code can also be deployed by people in other countries who wish to set up a similar … [Link]
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