The great Delib debate

I spent an interesting evening last night in the Grand Committee Room in Westminster Hall, listening to a debate on whether technology or policy would determine the outcome of this year’s general election.  The debate was organised by Delib and the panel of speakers including Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC, Bruce Anderson (The Independent), Rishi Saha [...]

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Ungeeking

‘Ungeeking’ is news to me.  It’s a term that Rohan Gunatillake of NESTA has coined and he defines it as what happens when behaviours developed online make their way into areas of our lives independent of the technology through which we learnt them. He suggests that this is happening in two main ways: 1. Through the widespread [...]

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It’s good to twitter

Social media is playing a real and surprising role in complementing traditional methods of communications to help people develop and retain their contacts at work.  That is the conclusion of a Work Foundation report, The Changing World of Work, published last month. The report, produced in association with BT, is based upon a survey of [...]

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