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Going to the govhack fest

Posted in Ingenuity, People-power, Picturing, tagged , , , , , on 23 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »

With some trepidation due to my lack of geek credentials, I have registered to attend Govhack. Keen to find out how I can contribute.
I’ve also added a project idea to the wiki, based on this idea. As a conceptual taster for how useful it might be to have a browseable overview of government activities (which [...]

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My take on the GLAM-wiki recommendations

Posted in Authority, People-power, tagged , , , , , on 15 October 2009 | 2 Comments »

Following on from my last post wondering about the lack of public comment to date, here’s my take on the recommendations. Obviously, as well as being really long, this post is selective and partial – many items seem to me to be straightforward and correct, so I have not commented; others are better discussed by [...]

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All quiet on the GLAM-wiki front

Posted in Wonder, tagged , , , , , , on 13 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Two months on from the groundbreaking GLAM-wiki conference, where cultural workers and wikipedians met to consider mutual benefits of a partnership (I blogged about it here), I have been gathering some thoughts on the recommendations – and will post them soon. Strangely, very few people have publicly commented, notable exceptions being GerardM (a Dutch wikipedian), [...]

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Cultural lessons from the crowd in the cloud

Posted in Authority, Ingenuity, People-power, tagged , , , , , , , , on 10 August 2009 | 2 Comments »

In the last couple of weeks I’ve encountered some great insight into and evidence of the potential effect of large public networks on the work of making cultural assets accessible. It has come from two separate sources – Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, but also the first ever public conversation between Wikimedia and the [...]

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A Government 2.0 idea – first, make all the functions visible

Posted in Ingenuity, People-power, Picturing, tagged , , , , , on 28 June 2009 | 11 Comments »

Senator Kate Lundy’s Public Sphere forum this week was exciting, not least because amongst all the compelling presentations, the Government 2.0 Taskforce was announced. Its role is not only to help the government navigate into the future of greater transparency and collaboration, but also to fund projects to the same end. So what might the [...]

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