Monthly Archives: October 2010

News release: Scottish bloggers meet up with politicians at Edinburgh event

Posted on 29 October 2010 by Paul Evans

Tweet Scottish bloggers, political activists and ‘hacktivists’ have been invited to a free-to-attend conference on social media and politics at Edinburgh University’s ‘School of Informatics’ on Saturday 13th November – 10-4pm The impact that Twitter, Facebook, and blogs will have … Continue reading →

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No 7: Breaking the monopolies that control the way schools are designed

Posted on 25 October 2010 by Ian Fordham

Tweet I’ve been following the Political Innovation project quite closely over the last month or so and the innovation that I would like to propose represents a synthesis of many of the other ideas in this series. I work in … Continue reading →

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No 6: Citizen-control of personal information

Posted on 13 October 2010 by William Heath

Tweet If the big political innovation of the moment is to give power back to people, then a good place to do it is with personal data. Whose data is it anyway? Whose health, whose education, whose identity, whose shopping … Continue reading →

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New media must communicate with the old world better…

Posted on 1 October 2010 by Brian Walker

Tweet I own up. In this company of political innovators, I’m a cuckoo in the nest. I’ve spent a lifetime in the big corporate media imagining myself speaking truth to power. IT meant the biggest electronic news production system in the world … Continue reading →

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