(I can’t yet promise that no-one has thought of this before, but I hope it’s an original and worthwhile idea.)
A digital proxy would be someone who undertakes a citizen’s online affairs, principally around digital participatory or elective democracy, because the citizen cannot use the internet for some reason. Continue reading
I’m very tired but I’m happy because good things have happened today. Continue reading
I have the following actual and potential work-streams.
| Title | What is it? | Funder | Status, dates and notes |
| Longitudinal Information literacy for democratic engagement (LIL-DEM) | Further research into factors affecting community councillors’ information literacies | Edinburgh Napier University | to start, February to April 2017 |
| Information literacy for democratic engagement (IL-DEM) | Research into factors affecting community councillors’ information literacies | CILIP‘s Information Literacy Group | finished, October 2016 to January 2017 |
| DigiCC workshops | How can community councils improve their digital engagement with citizens | Edinburgh Napier University, Scottish Government | finished, January 2015 to January 2016 |
| Delivering on DREaM | researcher/practitioner knowledge-sharing in Library and Information Science, supervised by Professor Hazel Hall | CILIP | finished, June to July 2015 |
| Workforce Mapping | mapping the workforce in the Libraries, Archives, Records, Knowledge and Information Management sector | CILIP, ARA | finished, summer 2014 to summer 2015 |
| Hyperlocal government engagement online | Social network analysis and Communities of practice research around 3 Edinburgh CCs | CCN+ | finished, summer 2014 |
| Community Council Location Finder | a searchable map of all Scottish Community Councils | Improvement Service | finished, spring 2014
My version is archived here, and the current version created by the Improvement Service is here. |
| 2014 survey of community council internet presences | How well do CCs use the internet to engage with citizens?
What are the lessons and consequences from the findings? |
Edinburgh Napier University | finished, spring 2014 |
| 2012 survey of community council internet presences | duplicate! | Self-funded | finished, summer 2012 |
| Communities of Practice and Knowledge Management around CC digital engagement | 2-year main research project, to extend CCN+ seed-project and other relevant previous work | TBC | funding application in progress, TBC |
| Writing paper(s) based on my MSc dissertation, to further updates of technology models | to report on local aspects of CC digital engagement | TBC | to start, TBC |
| Visualisation of hyperlocal data | to extend Community Council Location Finder | TBC | to start, TBC |
| 2017(?) survey of CC online presences | to build on 2012 and 2014 surveys | TBC | to start, TBC |
| Digital Proxies | Who guards vulnerable peoples’ digital presences | TBC | idea crystallised, TBC |
Lots and lots to do. I’m blogging about it just now to help me prioritise.
The results of our 2014 survey of Community Councils’ internet use have gathered some interest, especially after Peter wrote about the massive churn in online presences.
(Click the graphic to see a full-sized PDF.)
The rings’ outer diameters represent the numbers in each status in 2014. Inner diameters represent the amount of ‘churn’, i.e. the sum of the numbers that left or entered this status since 2012.
A terabyte HD in my main Mac (‘IGGY’) has died, so now the Mac has only four storage devices. Fortunately it’s no threat to my data – this HD was used until a few months ago for TimeMachine backups of this mac but now all the Macs here do TimeMachine backups to a very new 2TB TimeCapsule.* The TM sparsebundles were copied to the new TimeCapsule so we’ve not lost any backup history. Continue reading
I need an online home for my dissertation, so here it is:
In a former career track, I was a effectively the (completely self-taught*) SysAdmin for a small publishing company. As well as doing a lot of layout, some illustration, proofreading, print-buying, free-lancer-running and management of small in-house teams, I commissioned, installed and maintained the mostly Mac-based systems and printers.
So I’ve been silent for far too long. Here’s the highlights of the last month or so. Continue reading
Hi folks
A researcher at Napier is investigating attitudes to cycle paths. If you would like to be involved, please print and complete this questionnaire, then send it to James Calvey.
James Calvey BSc AMCIHT
Research Student
School of Engineering & the Built Environment
Edinburgh Napier University
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
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