Features
Ready, Steady… Go! London launches Social Innovation Competition
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of the Go London Social Innovation Competition, led by NHS London in partnership with the Greater London Authority and Transport for London. The Go London Social Innovation Competition is a call for ideas to get Londoners more physically active. Great ideas can come from anywhere and we’re after either existing or entirely new and innovative bright sparks.
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FutureGov Network meets Measurement Camp»‘How do you know it works?’ is one of those annoying questions that people seem to ask about social media. For some reason they’re never satisfied with ‘it just does’ as an answer, so our next event is a dream-team partnership between FutureGov and Measurement Camp to get to the bottom of social media measurement.
Videos
The power of social innovation: interview with Director of Social Innovation Camp, Anna Maybank»In a recent post over on Techpresident, Micah unpacked the three branches of We.Gov. The first is the idea of government 2.0, or government-as-a-platform. The second is on whether the net is better for campaigning than governing. And the third is on what happens when you open up the process with real-time transparency. While I agree strongly with Micah on all 3 points, for me what none of these quite get to is perhaps one of the most powerful uses of the web within the realm of We.Gov – the ability for people to use the Internet to come together and reimagine public value, not (just) public services per se.
Interviews
Interview with Britain’s ‘blogging Minister’, Tom Watson»Tom Watson MP will be speaking at next month’s Personal Democracy Forum Europe in Barcelona. In this short interview we give you a quick run down on Britain’s first blogging minister, the man credited with bringing digital engagement to government in the UK.
