May 2008 News
Links for 28 May 2008
Here are the links we found interesting today:
Demos pamphlet highlighting changing perceptions of privacy in the UK
Contains a collection of essays showing how social transformation, increasing surveillance and rapid technological innovation are redrawing the boundaries between the personal and the public, and argues that we need to all take responsibility for negotiating these new borders.
Take NCVO's Charity Forecast survey
NCVO's second charity forecast survey opens on 2nd May 2008. NCVO is inviting voluntary sector leaders to give their views on the health and prospects of their organisations in the second round of its confidence and trends survey. This quarterly survey questions sector leaders on current trends and future expectations. If you are a chief executive, director, chairman or trustee, you can add your voice to this vital quarterly planning tool, follow the link below to take the survey.
The survey
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The relationship between technological and social change
I'm still reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. In describing how the internet has disrupted the world of journalism and publishing, Shirky uses the example of the invention of movable type in the 15th century, and the impact that this had on scribes. The point he is trying to get across is the relationship between technological change and social change.
When researching the ICT Foresight reports I often found myself in discussions with our expert panel about technological determinism...
Building Bridges
NCVO / Carnegie UK Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society
‘Bridging’ Social Capital Seminar Series
Seminar 1: Building Bridges
Date: 12 June 2008 (4.00 to 5.30)
Venue: NCVO
Our increasingly diverse societies have re-emphasised concerns around fragmentation and the importance of social cohesion. Social cohesion depends partly on being able to achieve the right balance between diversity and unity and on valuing the differences between people as well as the common bonds. Social capital, in its...
