Posted By:  ictlogist Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008	Course: Network Society: Social changes, organizations and citizens - Definitive programme
A couple of months ago we already announced the course Network Society: Social changes, organizations and citizens . Finally, we have been able to set up the definitive programme for the course and all the details concerning its organization. The making of both the programme and the...... [view]

Posted By:  ictlogist Posted On:  Sep 14, 2008	ICTs and Citizenship
HIVOS is currently undertaking a survey to get a better understanding on how existing or new technologies (ICT) can support citizens at scale to be an active, involved participant of society . I was invited by Marc Lepage to take part in it, which I appreciate as it is always good to be...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Aug 28, 2008	Participation Works How To Guide on Multimedia Participation
Participation Works have just published the basic How To guide I wrote earlier this year on using Multimedia Tools for Youth Participation . (Thanks for Mas for spotting it had gone online, and to Nick and Michael for the case studies in the guide) This guide builds...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Aug 28, 2008	A veritable festival of youth and social media
The 26th and 27th September should see a veritable festival of events linked to youth participation, youth work and social media down in London. In fact, I wish I'd seen all the connections earlier to brand the whole lot as a festival. Here's what is coming up: Social...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Aug 11, 2008	Over on the Youth Work and Social Networking blog
I've tried to keep the plethora of reflections and shared bits and pieces from the Youth Work and Social Networking project over on their own blog - but I'm aware some people have been expecting me to post them here also. So, here is a quick run-down of some of the posts, documents and...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Aug 13, 2008	Building democracy: feedback and engagement on track
One of the biggest complaints about engaging in local democracy is that things never change. Which isn't true. Things do change - but public institutions are notoriously bad at telling people what has changed - and at keeping the people who first raise an issue or who are interested in...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Jul 4, 2008	Opportunities for young trainers with Participation Works
My work in youth participation really got started when the fantastic Bill Badham (Who incidentally is right his moment is somewhere cycling three times up a mountain in France to raise funds for a youth centre in Birmingham. Go sponsor him .) created four part-time jobs in The National Youth...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Jul 15, 2008	Presenting in second life tomorrow
I've never been entirely convinced that Second Life has a big role to play in campaigning, participation and public sector activity (it seems to fail both on counts of being intuitive and accessible to new users, and in being somewhere with a large existing constituency of people...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Jul 17, 2008	Engaging young people with learning disabilities
The Participation Works blogging platform platform may still be a noticeable omission from the Participation Works Network for England offering - but it's good to see a few more comment articles coming through from PW, particularly when they are sharing some great insights. In this report...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Jul 18, 2008	Online consultation on science and society
Thanks to tweets from Dave Briggs and a blog post from Simon over at Puffbox I've just been exploring Steph Gray's quite fantastic innovations over the Science and Society consultation website . Not only does the site work hard to make a complex consultation more accessible...... [view]

Posted By:  obscurity Posted On:  Jul 21, 2008	SMSPoll - Accessible big screen voting
If you're looking for a way to run a quick mobile phone based consultation - or you've been wanting to use interactive voting at a conference or participation event - but haven't been able to afford expensive e-voting equipment - then you might want to take a look at SMSPoll.net . ...... [view]

Dutch National Youth Council
Submitted By:    Website:  http://www.jeugdraad.nl Phone:  +31 30 230 35 75 (genera E-mail:  info@jeugdraad.nl	Vision:   Our motto is: Meedenken, Meebeslissen en Meedoen (Participate, think and decide, along) ...   City:   Utrecht   [view]

Submitted By:   john0406 Event Date:  Mar 5, 2008 & Time: 18:00 PM-20:00 PM Event Location:  Boston Public Library, Raab Lecture Hall [view]

Choices in Little Rock: Choosing to Participate