ICT and Social Capital paper
Posted by Gary on July 27, 2006
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
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Gary Copitch said
Intersting article from the BBC about digital divide issues http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6085412.stm
Gary Copitch said
Another piece of interesting research on Social Capital from the Joseph Rowntree foundation. The report is entitled “How can we unlock the potential of cultural diversity in cities”
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/government/1963.asp
testmcin said
There was a very successful workshop organised by the CN4M in Manchester on Social Capital and it links to the work on community cohesion. ICT was mentioned as a way to develop this. Interestingly I wonder how this can link to the idea of knowledge communities. Anyone any ideas?
testmcin said
Great podcast on social capital from Robert Puttnam http://www.socialsciences.man.ac.uk/school/
worth cheking out
steve said
are you sure about that?
MCIN Director said
Sorry about that they seem to have changed the location. The podcast is now at
http://www.socialsciences.man.ac.uk/school/socialchange/mp3/rdp-bbctoday061006.mp3
MCIN Director said
Thanks for the link to the paper. Its very interesting reading. You might be interested in a conference MCIN is running in Manchester on the 16th October along with Manchester Metropolitan University, and CN4M a community empowerment network on social capital and community cohesion, which Robert Puttnam is speaking at. You can find the details at http://www.mymanchester.net/home/conferences/1905 . We have about 160 people coming from different sectors and I will be speaking on ICT and Social Capital. We are planning to Web Cast it so if you want to see it please contact Sophie and she can link you up with the web cast. sophiefosker@googlemail.com. There will also be a blog after the event with the video and the final report on.