5. Technology or Social Change?
The Internet is the most significant technological development of the
last 100 years. At least.
Self Publication: Disintermediation of the Media
Virtual Community and Social Networking: Wide scale use of Networked
Power
Collaborative Culture: Creating a sharing economy
Radical Openness: Disruption of the democratic relationship
Networked Technology: Smart Cities and new streams of information
Customisation, Making and Self-Service: Disruption of manufacturing and
the industrial economy
7. Participatory Culture
Jenkins, Rheingold
With relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement
With strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations with others
With some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most
experienced is passed along to novices
Where Members believe that their contributions matter
Where Members feel some degree of social connection with one another (at
the least they care what other people think about what they have created)
8. We Will Gather
http://www.wewillgather.co.uk
Grew out of a spontaneous response
to the riots in 2011 and #RiotCleanup
Based around the simple premise of
helping people organise for specific
community tasks
It worked once – can you work
again?
9. Networked Power
Networked power operates differently to hierarchical power
It depends on connections and sharing rather than on roles or structures
It is highly responsive to need and opportunity
When online it can be highly agile as the environment is designed to support this
There are different forms of ties within networks – strong and weak – and these
operate differently
You need to understand your own contribution to understand your relevance and
potential influence
10. Occupy
http://occupylondon.org.uk
No-one is in charge
Decisions are negotiated
Objectives are contested
They are highly networked and agile
Is this intelligence or community
policing?
11. Co-production
Co-production means involving all stakeholders in not only designing
but delivering outcomes
Community engagement theory and practice has moved away from top down
models, and best practice examines how you can pass power to communities
It takes an asset based approach to communities rather than the traditional
deficit model
It is a strong ‘fit’ with the participatory culture of the online world
It is an important tool in a time when we have to find ‘more for less’
12. Community Payback
http://www.swmprobation.gov.uk/?page_id=31
A scheme to enable local communities to
nominate projects for Community Payback
The scheme will be organised online and
results will be shared there
The project owner presented at CityCamp
Coventry and is thinking of this as a social
enterprise from the start
13. Social Innovation
The Social Innovation movement brings many of these ideas together
Social Innovation is a term referring to groups, organisations and individuals
who use this new environment to create new ways of doing things
Usually these projects are civic and ‘pro-social’
They work in highly networked and agile ways and can be both highly
effective and highly fragile
At their heart is the concept of an unconference – an unscripted gathering of
like minded people
14. BlueLightCamp
http://bluelightcamp.wordpress.com
A Social Innovation event based on
an unconference format: No agenda,
only 1 or 2 formal speakers
Hundreds of professionals attending
and sharing information
Self-directed learning and best
practice
A way to find early adopters in your
organisations
16. We limit ourselves by simply considering
changes to the way we communicate
17. There are new rules of engagement
Networked Digital
Open Agile
18. How does this change the relationship
between citizen and state?
19. Disintermediation and new forms of power
Political Parties have less Local Media is struggling to
relevance survive
There is no space for Your thinking will be done
discretion in public
20. Will we just communicate with the
public or collaborate with them?
21. We live in an increasingly networked society
Our working assumption, explored in recent research work, is that:
a more networked society will need a more Networked Councillor
- able to represent and respond to people acclimatized to a collaborative and
networked way of making decisions and taking action.
22. The qualities of the Networked Councillor
Open by default: this is open not just in terms of information but also in terms of
thinking and decision making
Digitally native: not in terms of age but in terms of the individual adopting the
behaviours and social norms of the digital culture
Co-productive: an expectation that everyone in the conversation has power to act and
the potential to be active in the outcome as well as the decision-making process
And as the name says, networked: able to be effective via networked as well as
hierarchical power as a leader
23. We need to support our
Elected Representatives
in a way which makes them effective in this
Networked and Digital World
24. We do not need to show them
how to use Twitter
