I spent Saturday at Local Government Camp in Birmingham – there’ll be at least one post along here shortly based on things I learned there. But this one is here to host the slides I used at the start of the conversation (sorry – Slideshare is being a complete pain today and I can’t embed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘LocalGovCamp’
Towards a local authority-wide schools data-hack project
It’s a regular theme of this blog that transparency and open data – while undoubtedly being good things – can often create situations in which democracy is diminished rather than enhanced. The other day, for example, I posted my misgivings about guerilla webcasting of council meetings. (Shorter version: can result in selective reporting, poorer press [...]
LocalGovCamp
LocalGovCamp is happening this Saturday in Birmingham. Tickets were sold-out some time ago now, and there are some great session ideas up on the Google Group for it. I’m particularly keen on Tim Davies ‘overcoming the small hurdles’ session (something of a regular reference point here) and I’m going to see if there is any [...]