This document discusses how digital inclusion relates to cultural heritage and social justice. It presents a case study of MonmouthpediA, a project that used Wikipedia to document places, people, and things in Monmouth, Wales to promote cultural heritage. The project had success in increasing digital inclusion and international recognition. The author advocates for digital community curation tools to further engage communities and address digital exclusion through celebrating local culture and stories.

1. Telling Truths, Changing Minds
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Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion,
Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Matt Chilcott
PhD Researcher
Communities 2.0

2. PhD Digital Inclusion
& Social Justice
A correlation exists between enabling
meaningful digital inclusion and the
manner in which internet tools are
constructed and utilised to support
excluded members of society express
their sense of identity and cultural
heritage.
DIJ: Digital Inclusion Journal web space
- digital scholarship research
methodology
- portal of sources, evidence base
and dissemination to
practitioners, researchers & policy
makers.
Matt Chilcott
PhD Researcher
Communities 2.0

3. http://www.raglanundersiege1646.co.uk

4. Research Context - living through the digital revolution
World Wide Web Foundation: Web Index (2012) – UK ranking 3rd –
social, economic and political importance of the internet across nations.
Digital by Default Government policy (2012) – Universal Credit: online benefits
from 2013.
Dr Ellen Helsper Emergence of a Digital Underclass Policy Briefing (2011) – review
of ONS statistics – emphasis on low education attainment groups.
1 in 3 of the Welsh Adult population are digitally excluded (2011) – emphasis on
older people.
Wales: A Truly Digital Nation (2012).
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion,
Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Matt Chilcott
PhD Researcher
Communities 2.0

5. Research Context - living through the digital revolution
Internet access no longer restricted to the home and workplace – mobile and
pervasive internet access the norm in next 3 years - opportunity for more creative
‘stories of place’ based digital engagement methodologies – learning from the
Internet of Things research field.
Government policy at its best when it seeks to deliver social innovation e.g.
Aneurin Bevan & the National Health Service.
Need for social innovation approach to tacking digital exclusion – create new
social value and meaning that addresses social exclusion – strategy of digital
community curation celebrating cultural heritage, identity and sense of place.
Local people’s voice, reminiscence and stories shared and co-created with others
across the digital global village.
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion,
Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Matt Chilcott
PhD Researcher
Communities 2.0

6. Case Study - MonmouthpediA – a techno-social innovation project
embracing a digital community curation methodology

7. Case Study - MonmouthpediA – a techno-social innovation project
embracing a digital community curation methodology
MonmouthpediA is a World first Techno-Social Innovation
project which attempted to use Wikipedia (the People’s
Encyclopedia) to cover every notable
place, person, artefact, plant, animal and other things in
Monmouth in as many languages as possible.
Devised by John Cummings and supported by Wiki Media
UK, Monmouthshire County Council, CMC2 and local and global
content creating contributors.
Philosophical underpinning - Knowledge gives us context and it
allows us to appreciate our surroundings more.
The Council for British Archaeology designated Monmouth as
the seventh best town for archaeology in Britain.
Monmouthpedia uses QRpedia codes, a type of bar code
a smartphone can read through its camera (using one of the
many free QR readers available) that takes you to a Wikipedia
article in your language.

8. Case Study - MonmouthpediA – a techno-social innovation project
embracing a digital community curation methodology

9. MonmouthpediA : Key Digital Inclusion outcomes
International WikiMedia community voted MonmouthpediA the coolest project of
2012.
Huge impact on Monmouthshire communities wishing to create digital
experiences within their own towns & villages & significant global profile of
techno-social innovation emanating from Wales with evidence of new techy-
tourists making purposeful visits to Monmouth.
Signposting to Welsh Government that although all content is available in the
medium of Welsh there is no Mobile OS to deliver the content – issue of digital
equality.
Not all Local Knowledge meets with Wikipedia’s Notability criteria & articles
require academic style references to be approved.
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion,
Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Matt Chilcott
PhD Researcher
Communities 2.0

10. Beyond MonmouthpediA
Wales’ First Free Wifi Town now promoted to researchers and digital business
leaders as a Digital Community Lab Test bed – social and economic drivers.
New digital community curation tools proving successful – History Pin &
Placebooks.
Digital Community Curation practice has been embraced within the Communities
2.0 intervention programme – History Pin – online and on mobile publication with
communities in the Valleys.
Investment from the People’s Collection Wales in Placebooks designed to allow
communities to tell stories about place – online and on mobile with cached
content to ensure on location access in Wales’ many not spots.
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion,
Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Matt Chilcott
PhD Researcher
Communities 2.0

11. Publications & online points of reference
Chilcott, M. (2013) Social Innovation and Digital Community Curation – Delivering A Digital Wales
Chapter contribution commissioned for the Digital World: http://goo.gl/0nt8U
Connectivity, Creativity and Rights: Routledge Book publication
Communities 2.0
Howell, R. & Chilcott, M. (2012) Historical Research, Digital Heritage and http://goo.gl/bqRPE
Sense of Place International Journal of Intangible Heritage.
Digital Inclusion Journal
Chilcott, M. & Smith, A. (2012) An analysis of the potential to utilize http://goo.gl/KOaP9
virtual worlds to enhance edutainment and improve the wellbeing of MIT Press: The process of Social Innovation
the ageing population Springer Serious Games and Interactive http://goo.gl/NCS5W
Worlds Special Edition Journal on the LNCS Transactions on Edutainment
ISSN: 1867-7207 MonmouthpediA
http://goo.gl/xL2Gr
Chilcott, M. & Hartwig, J. (2009) NEWPORT DIGITAL: Community
Empowerment through Digital Inclusion Proceedings of the 2009 History Pin
Newport Nexus Learning and Research Conference ISBN 978-1-899274- http://www.historypin.com/map/
38-3
Placebooks
Chilcott, M (2008) 'New media educational technologies applications http://www.placebooks.org/
for social inclusion' Brecon: Clip - Vol.34, No.2 Multimedia & Information
Technology Journal ISSN 1499-90X CMC2 Twitter feed
https://twitter.com/CMC_squared
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion,
Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Matt Chilcott
PhD Researcher
Communities 2.0

12. Telling Truths, Changing Minds
Attribution: dcOde_null Flickr: Binary Contemplation
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion,
Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Matt Chilcott
PhD Researcher
Communities 2.0