See the link below. Interesting paper
Impact of local ICT Iniatives on Social Capital and quality of life. produced by Chimera University of essex April 2006
http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/pubs/wps/CWP-2006-06-Local-ICT-Social-Capital.pdf
We are working with lots of local people to develop web based content. The problem is how you develop a sustainable model. Could content that is produced be sold? If so how and what is the market. Any ideas?
MCIN is currently developing community reporters. These are local people who can talk about there experiences , or tell people things such as how to cook a particular dish or produce a match report for the local school football team or write an article about a local event. We are having a debate about weather to call the community reporters or community journalists. I think the difference is that community reporters could be opinions or more magazine type content rather than community journalists which is story based and more balanced. I am interested if other people see a difference?
