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Citizen historians and social change

By: nick.stanhope@w...
On: 30th November 2012

Over the last 18 months, We Are What We Do, through our Historypin project, has been working with Nominet Trust to harness the social power of digital citizen history.

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Our widget is live

By: edmitchell@tran...
On: 21st November 2012

The Transition Project Sharing Engine project is an experiment to see whether we can:

Produce a widget for webmasters to put on their own Transition Initiative websites
See whether community groups will moderate content that is shared by a wider movement
Build a growing community of webmasters in a movement to support eachother

It is going well.

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3½ months review continued

By: cindy@tyze.com
On: 5th November 2012

A pipeline of prospects is being built; interest from local authorities, housing associations, charities and health and social care organisations. Conversion is another matter considering the climate. There is competition - Rally Round, Caucus, Jointly, Know your own Health, etc. - however; Tyze's end-user focus has a more B2C look ‘n’ feel and the responsive, user-led developments should keep it one step ahead. more >

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3½ months review blog of Tyze Personal Networks - UK - Part1

By: cindy@tyze.com
On: 5th November 2012

Government-funded systems of health and social care are facing enormous fiscal and human-resource challenges. In the UK, this changing landscape has meant that the health and social care sector faces an unprecedented period of change and reinvention. There is increasing tension between local authorities, the NHS, social care providers and housing associations, etc., as statutory service provision contracts. GP Commissioning and Clinical Commissioning Groups are just starting to scope out their own roles and responsibilities. more >

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Making progress on digital inclusion and digital engagement

By: Sarah Fink
On: 20th September 2012

With over three quarters of people online at home and nearly half of people using the internet on their smartphones, we expect the Government to keep up – and online public services to be both accessible and engaging.

For government to provide online services for all citizens is challenging to say the least. Especially considering both the 5.4 million people aged 65 and older who, for whatever reason, are offline - and unemployed young people – where internet use and familiarity with technology is typically high, but the digital channel is not being used to its full potential.

With the support of Nominet Trust, we at Policy Exchange have researched how to tackle these challenges. more >

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Our Digital Planet - win £500 worth of photography equipment

By: Rachael Gant
On: 12th July 2012

The internet is amazing. It has the potential to make a positive difference to our own lives, the lives of those around us and the world we live in too.

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