Features
Wish list wrap up part three: the power of convening
You didn’t really believe me when I said it was only two parts did you? All good things come in threes after all and having covered the content from the event itself in parts one and two, I wanted to take the chance to share some of my learning from putting on the event itself:
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Local government innovation conference»So a bit of a first for me coming to a conference semi-officially to blog it rather than participate and tweet as a form of stress relief. Although that has meant spending all day in a suit AND a tie to try and fit in with the local government crowd, something I’m less and less comfortable with but does mean I fly under the radar quite nicely with so few in the sector on Twitter!
Videos
We are the government. Us Now.»A bit of a delayed post this one, but a couple of Wednesdays ago I was lucky enough to go along to a screening of Ivo Gormley’s new film Us Now. Pitched as “a film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet”, Us Now focuses on the changing relationship between citizens and the state enabled by developments in technology and the expansion of the Internet.
Interviews
The GovWeb wish list»It’s been a big week in the world of digital government, what with the first Minister for Communications Stephen Carter announcing that he is in the process of drafting a ‘Digital Britain’ action plan as well as the launch of the Digital Inclusion action plan (I’ll be returning to these in a post shortly). So it seemed rather timely to find myself having a coffee and a chat with the Internet tsar Derek Wyatt MP last Thursday.
