Thanks to the folks at The Guardian and their Activate 2010 conference I’ll be in the UK next week.
The “official” Twitter hashtag I’ll use for updates during the week is #edemuk – I’ll use this for logistics and announce any spontaneous opportunities to connect.
My big message all week will be Local Matters, Civility Matters, Inclusion Matters. In terms of “what’s new” and exciting since my last UK visit are the emerging digital inclusion lessons from our Inclusive Social Media efforts in lower income, high immigrant neighborhoods. If you can’t make any of the event, watch my recent webinar.
- June 29-30 – Bristol – Straight from the airport to the Knowle West Media Centre, then later a pub gathering at 8 p.m. at Llandoger Trow with Brislington and Greater Bedminister participants from the Neighbourhood Issues Forums that we host in Bristol. Everyone welcome. On June 30, Stephen Hilton with Connecting Bristol is hosting a discussion on digital inclusion and e-democracy. Contact Stephen for details.
- July 1 – London – Activate Conference – Watch the video preview of my keynote speech. Other speakers include Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, Tom Steinberg with mySociety, Clay Shirky, Beth Noveck with the White House, and many more. My job, as described so well recently by a BP official, is to tell the story of how we “small people” are using the Internet to empower ourselves. 🙂
- July 2 – London – Community Organising : What contribution local online? – Please register now for this free event organized by our friends with London Networked Neighbourhoods runs from 3 to 5 p.m., followed by a pub gathering at The Albert, 52 Victoria Street. If you can’t make the event, I invite all my e-democracy friends to join us there.
- July 3 – London – E-Democracy.org UK Meeting – At 10 a.m. on Saturday, our UK-based Board Members Mary Reid and Edward Andersson invite any of our local Issues Forum leaders and volunteers (potential volunteers welcome too!) to join us near Kings Cross. Contact us for the full details. (Mary Reid is new Board Chair of E-Democracy.org, blog announcement pending.) No plans as of yet for Saturday evening, but I hope to connect with some of our Newham forum friends.