Will Davies presents on the link between social capital and digital inclusion.
From an RSA-UK Online Centres seminar at The RSA on the 20th May 2009.
More details at http://connectedcommunities.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/05/20/blogging-and-tweets-from-digital-inclusion-seminar/
ALL ADDS UP TO A MASSIVE POLICY CHALLENGE:DIFFICULTY OF HIGHLIGHTING DRIVERS OF CHANGEDIFFICULTY OF IDENTIFYING CAUSE AND EFFECTDIFFICULTY OF IDENTIFYING SUITABLE OBJECT OF POLICY INTERVENTION…Social capital analysis represents admirable honesty on the part of policy-makers, but sometimes I wonder if it doesn’t also highlight the sheer difficulty and complexity of tackling inequality.
Rail discount report on Monday…
Problem of causes….Decline of unions
Issues about online/offline - real world/virtual… a slightly moribund debate really. It’s all real. It’s just that the web combines the technological properties of a television or newspaper with those of a telephone. There’s nothing virtual about that. The question is how that is used to structure social relations…On the final point: Shirky makes the point that we can now ‘organise without organisations’; Paul Resnick makes the point that we can move from just-in-case associations to just-in-time associations
- Keith hampton’s e-neighbours study…- Are crime maps really a good thing?
1. Informal may work better than formal, policy-driven…