Archives: November, 2009
WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement, Power of Information
Ivo Gormley directed of the cult hit film UsNow which showed how crowdsourced and participative activity is changing life, from couchsurfing through football. It then asks the question what all this means for government. “Goverment is the most slow to change, which is paradoxical because they have the most to gain.”
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement
The First Popular European e-Government unConference may have claimed another first with a presentation by a senior government Minister in PechaKucha format. Our adhoc replacement projector arrangement did not really do Mats Odell’s slides justice; you can see them here (pdf). The text of his talk is here (pdf). Many thanks to Mats and his [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, November 20th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Lovely photoset by Ton of the Garaget setting and our preparations for the Malmo09 unConference.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Don T kindly slipped me an advance copy of the State of the eUnion book initiated by John Goetze. At quick glance seems to have very promising contributions from global brands Tim O’Reilly, Larry Lessig and Dave Weinberger along with high quality stuff from locally better-known faves such as Lee from Headshift, Dave Osimo, Olov [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Pertinent Art, Political engagement
With Ministerial and industry declarations echoing in the conference centre across town Donagh and I are in Garaget in uptown Malmo, preparing for the first popular European e-government conference. We’ve got plenty of “starting point” material and pertinent art. If and when people come tonight we’ll work out a running order together for the unConference [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, November 15th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art
Oh man. Our soon-to-be-LCC-accredited-Master-of-Design Donagh has brought the IdealGov themed “pertinent art” idea to life: We’ll be voting on which ones we like best at the live and spontaneous 1st Popular European e-Government Happening in Malmo Sweden next week. Still time to send in your pertinent art ideas – either on the blog or mail [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 7th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
We’re preparing Idealgov for a refresh and rebirth. Meanwhile we’re looking forward to the first popular spontaneous European e-Gov event: Malmo09.org.
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