I enjoy the weekly briefing from the Scottish Community Alliance – 6 interesting and challenging articles about how we can make our society work better, leavened with the occasional salutary tale, and always a lot of potential learning. This week’s briefing is no exception. Here’s some highlights:
Enjoy!
While transcribing interviews for the ILDEM project, I was reminded of one of my MSc courseworks, about Scottish Local Authority websites. It wasn’t perfect but I think my conclusions were based on good evidence. They were
There is marked variation in LA website accessibilities, some having very few accessibility features. It seems no Scottish local government website is ‘perfectly’ accessible while a signicant number do not follow a national standard, the Scottish Navigation List. [1]
Here’s our sixth post about the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project, about some of the information-training needs we’ve found. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
The Centre for Social Informatics is currently undertaking a project entitled Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM). Supported by a grant from the CILIP Information Literacy Group, our work investigates levels of digital and information literacy within Scotland’s Community Council system.
Specifically Peter Cruickshank, Dr Bruce Ryan and I are exploring how community councillors develop the skills required to inform and engage with the citizens that they represent, and how libraries support this work. In doing so we’re extending two established research streams within the Centre for Social Informatics: Cruickshank and Ryan’s work on digital engagement in local democracy (such as our DigiCC workshops), and mine with Christine Irving on information literacy and life-long learning. This work also builds upon our group’s track record in library and information science research.
Scottish Community Councils (which are analogous to parish councils in England and Wales) are a vital link…
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Here’s our third post about the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
Here’s our third post about the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
The very first Scottish Community Councils Twitter Hour was hosted by the Improvement Service’s Community Council Project last Tuesday. It was a fun- and information-filled time, especially as I was tweeting from a late-running train, then a taxi, then my home mac.
There’s lots of information and links in the Storify – enjoy!
Here’s our second post about the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
Here’s our first post about the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
Here’s our introduction to the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
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