Social Innovation and the Knowledge Society – Now is the Time.
The announcement, on Friday, that our local council was considering cutting the most expensive bus routes struck a chord with me. I remember when the bus services were centralised, it was a good...
View ArticleWho are the Neteratti?
Let me say at the start that I have never owned a Linn hifi. Nor have I, for that matter ever owned a Naim, Accoustic Research, Roksan or any other esoteric brand of equipment. I do own a Quad / Kef...
View ArticleA Holy Trinity
The Care Wrap   On Friday Martha Lane-Fox Tweeted: “RT NewStatesman xmas issue: @Marthalanefox has agreed to be our celebrity subscriber of the week : HELP, not feeling v funny or inspired!â€...
View ArticleBeing Digital 2010
In 1995 “Being Digital†by Nicholas Negroponte (Professor of Media Technology at MIT and founder of Media Lab) was a “must read†for anybody interested in how digital technology was having an...
View ArticleRural Digital Economy is a Real Digital Economy
I noticed somebody on Twitter earlier this week suggest that if people needed broadband and hadn’t got access to it then they should move. If we take this view we depopulate rural areas so that there...
View ArticleSilver Bullets
Silver bullets have a place in the popular consciousness; a silver bullet used to despatch the bad guys for the Lone Ranger, silver bullets are also useful if you need to dispense with a werewolf and...
View ArticlePlus ca Change, Plus ca Meme Chose
In a truly digital society there is no reason why any digitally included person should not participate in society, or in the economy. Yet, because we organise ourselves on an industrial basis those who...
View ArticleCesi n’est pas une pipe
The National Digital Inclusion Conference 2010 (NDI 10) was a better conference than last year. This was in part due to the involvement of larger numbers of individuals and groups that are engaged in...
View ArticleMy Digital Inclusion Manifesto
Introduction. This is my manifesto for Digital Inclusion. It’s not “The†manifesto it’s “A†manifesto for discussion, critique, adaptation, for additions or from which to delete as...
View ArticleRebooting Rural
To those who understand, who get IT, who have vision and imagination that goes beyond a responsibility to shareholders there is no issue in understanding the potential for unlimited bandwidth in rural...
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