“Why should someone profit from me not living with my family?” »
[Summary: More thoughts from the CROA conference on the details of a changing state] “Why should someone profit from me not living with my family?” That was the powerful question put by a young woman from member of Manchester’s Care to Change Council to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families Tim Loughton at the ...
Advocacy & accountability in a changing public sector… »
[Summary: Reflections on the Children's Rights Officers and Advocates 2010 conference - and some thoughts on the details of a re-engineered state...] I spent a few days last week at the annual conference of CROA, the network of Children’s Rights Officers and Advocates, supporting delegates to discover and use different social media, and facilitating an ...
Youth Leadership in a Digital Age: An Internet Governance example »
The launch of the Young Foundations new report “Plugged in, untapped: Using digital technologies to help young people learn to lead” was rather serendipitous. I saw an e-mail announcing it’s launch just as I got back from the final session of The Internet Governance Forum, where, for the past 48 hours, the ‘Dynamic Youth Coalition ...
Political Innovation Essays: Towards Interactive Government »
A few months back Paul Evans asked me to write a short essay/blog post for the Political Innovation project – taking a series of posts about how politics could be done better – and cross-posting them on political blogs from different places on the political spectrum. I managed to escape dissertation writing long enough to ...
Online version: Open Data, Democracy and Public Sector Reform »
Reposted from my Open Data Impacts research blog, which is where I’ll try and keep most open data related posts in future, with this blog maintaining it’s wider focus… A public report based on the research for my MSc Dissertation is now available here*. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the research whether in ...
Dissertation complete! »
If you were wondering why things had been so quiet on this blog of late, it had quite a bit to do with the trials of writing up my MSc Dissertation, which, I finally submitted just over a week back. I’ll hopefully be able to share the whole thing, and some of the findings in ...
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