If you want to come, or are now unable to attend, please start/add your name to a thread on the Google group discussion forum. We'll try and accommodate people on a first come, first served basis if places become available.
This barcamp is about creating a shared understanding and commitment to the vision for UK government web activity and helping establish the UK government Digital Network to bring together the community of webbies within central government and the wider public sector.
Government's approach to all things web and digital is changing for all sorts of reasons: transformational government / website rationalisation provides greater focus on a smaller number of online channels, the impact of - and opportunities presented by - web 2.0 is looming large in everyone's thoughts, online engagement and deliberation are buzz phrases around Whitehall.
This barcamp provides a opportunity where hopefully we can answer some of the difficult questions and create a shared vision and approach. Equally, its hoped we can mobilise the government digital media community to improve our skills, knowledge and voice as a collective group.
This event should be of interest to all who work in the UK government digital media community: permanent civil servants, contractors, consultants, agencies, advisers, supporters, observers, and critics.
If you think you've got something to contribute to improving how government organisations use the web, then this event is for you. If demand and space results in us becoming oversubscribed, we may limit spaces to a representative sample of the above.
Add your name to this list if you want to come and under 'Session' detail what you want to contribute to the barcamp. The easiest way to add your name is to select edit page, copy and paste a participant's details and replace with your own.
| name | organisation | session topic /description | other topics i'd like to hear about |
| Anastasia Konstantinova | UX Consultant | e-Government strategies: a comparative study of some UK and NZ government sites | Balancing site owner and site users interests in the case of government sites |
| Jeremy Gould | Ministry of Justice | Something about web strategy | how to build a special interest group in a social network |
| Steve Bridger | nfp 2.0 | Something about breaking down silos / new job roles / skillsets | how to encourage innovation without re-inventing the wheel each time |
| Stuart Reid | Black Mole | Good uses for video online | Project collaboration across different geographical sites |
| David Wilcox | Designing for Civil Society | Something on co-design | Integrating online engagement with other methods |
| Paul Clarke | Honestlyreal | Setting strategy: do simple things well, or innovate and accept failures? | Selling mashups to policy owners |
| Jag Singh | MessageSpace.co.uk | "Working with Web Analytics" and/or "What politicians want from the Web" | Legitimacy considerations re: online govt. engagement + Minorities on the web |
| Tom Steinberg | mySociety.org | Dunno yet | But I'm sure it'll be fab |
| Jane O'Loughlin | DBERR | Johnny Logan | How govt can use 2.0 effectively |
| Nick Keane | National Policing Improvement Agency | TBA | Most of it |
| Glyn Wintle | Open Rights Group | e-voting | |
| Sheila Thomson | Open Rights Group | | |
| James Darling | CitySafe | TBA | |
| Ben Whitnall | Delib | Something about social media (not just the Facebook variety), engagement and consultation? | Something on assessing results, success, measurements, metrics, ROI, value etc |
| Lee Bryant | Headshift | Starting from the inside | Participation and engagement ideas |
| Adam McGreggor | Too Many Hats þ | - | - |
| Graham Higgins | SemWebParlParse and Bel-EPA | semantic web technologies and democratic engagement | trust metrics and schemes |
| Julian Todd | Publicwhip, undemocracy.com | scraping, parsing, political accountability | tracking finances, contracts, profits in general |
| Mark Simpkins | ivotedforyoubecause.com | social software, engagement and education | |
| Steve Dale | IDeA Communities IDeA CoP Platform | Creating and managing communities of practice in local government | any inside knowledge about Google's strategy for social networking |
| James Cronin | mySociety.org , TheyWorkForYou.com | | |
| Alex Butler | [http://www.coi.gov.uk] | UK government digital strategy | A new blueprint for government online |
| Guido Fawkes | Order-Order.com | Keeping it real(istic)- What the public sector should not be doing | What the private sector should be doing |
| Rob McKinnon | TheyWorkForYou.co.nz | Networked Democracy - How will it work? How will it scale to 60 million people? What is going to be trialled at TheyWorkForYou.co.nz? | Discussion on how we can help in Lawrence Lessig's 10 year campaign against corruption: http://lessig.org/blog/2007/10/corruption_lecture_alpha_versi_1.html |
| Dave Briggs | the information authority | online social tools, community building, using social media to improve engagement | Getting buy-in to web 2.0 initiatives |
| William Heath | Ideal Governmnt | What we want from e-enabled public services? | Any kinds of new energy and ideas generated by the contempory internet |
| -Daintree Peters- | Unable to attend | | |
| Mercedes Clark-Smith | National Archives | Web strategy,UCD | social networks, practical ways of using semantic web or anything anyone is doing in the area,agile and UCD |
| James Corrigan | East Devon | What the web really means in the rural community and driving take up in the real world | It would be great if people nationally would come down to the REAL south west (which isn't just Bristol, folks!) If you're willing, we can try to make conference arrangements in Devon? |
| Carl Haggerty | Devon | Council web strategies and links with local and regional portals | If we can help provide a south west aspect to this that would be great, Would be happy to support James with arrangements in Devon? |
| Dominic Tinley | UK Parliament | Something about what Parliament is doing | What everyone else is doing, and other good ideas |
| Francis Irving | Public Whip, mySociety, UNDemocracy | How to court programmers who actual care about what they do to work with you | Data sets we haven't even heard of that should be open, changes in IT procurement policy to be more agile |
| Richard Pope | PlanningAlerts.com, mySociety, moo.com, GroupsNearYou.com | Something about planning data | Is it possible to make something good with government data without the hassle of having to steal it first? |
| John Sheridan | Office of Public Sector Information | How the web can help enable public sector information re-use | Government or public sector APIs |
| Edward Andersson | Involve People and Participation.net | Combining eDemocracy and face to face public engagement | Inspiring examples from across |
| Julia Chandler | Department for International Development | Good practice examples of sharing experience and content across the public sector | Web strategy |
| Ian Dunmore | Public Sector Forums | Every/All | Listen, learn and be decorative! |
| Emma Mulqueeny | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Something about Web 2, transformational government and effect | Private sector take on government online engagement |
| Phil Green | Sustainable Community Action - http://sca21.wikia.com | Integrating online and face to face community involvement via co-design | Resourcing informal community action and getting government to free our data |
| David Osimo | IPTS - European Commission JRC (www.jrc.es) | a) an EU wide perspective on web2 in government activities; b) not only eParticipation: initiatives on back office and service provision | take-up of existing projects, possible problems and risks |
| Tracy Green | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Web strategy and Web 2 | TBA |
| Darren Roberts | PA Consulting Group | Web Strategy | TBA |
| Patrick Callaghan | National Audit Office | All | Departments' social media policies, and strategies to stop management banning access to Facebook |
| Nick Booth | www.podnosh.com | Whistleblowers or service transformers? Who decides which public servants can join the conversational web? | Always on consultation - listening to the web as a legitimate form of consultation |
| Vin Sumner | Second Places (www.secondplaces.net) | Virtual Worlds and the Public Sector | Embedding Public Sector Content across the Web |
| David Pullinger | COI | Digital policy | New mashups of data and information |
| Nick Jones | COI | Digital policy | Digital People: What features, functionality and networks should the Government's emerginc public sector network embrace? |
| Elaine Adu-Poku | COI | Digital policy | E-Government |
| Nettie Williams | Ministry of Justice | Practical / common sense approach to delivery | |
| Paul Caplan | content to be different http://www.theinternationale.org | Putting a human voice back into Comms | |
| Justin Kerr-Stevens | Department for Innovation Universities and Skills | | How do we keep people engaged? |
| Julian Burgess | UK Parliament | TBA | Trust metrics and Government or public sector APIs |
| Paul Massey | K&L Gates | Legal Issues for Online Interactions | Overcoming the digital divide |
| Dorothy Atcheson | Home Office | How to better share expertise and skills across the gov web community | whatever's happening next, AFTER web 2, and how to keep up |
| Tracey Webb | Ministry of Defence | TBA | Web 2 and after |
| Feargal Hogan | School Governor | Raising expectations | The use of technology in education |
| Tim Davies | The National Youth Agency / Practical Participation | Online engagement with young people or social media to support policy implmentation (a la aiming high for young people events run by The NYA with DSCF involvement | How social media best supports effective consultation and engagement processes. How young people can be effectivly engaged by different tools. How we ensure new opportunities don't widen inequalities but rather address social justice and increase political empowerment for the most disadvantaged |
| Noel Hatch | A local authority | Using social media to connect staff and knowledge | Using social networking to improve participation/engagement |
| Laura Whitehead | Popokatea(based in Devon) | Inclusion and accessibility with media | Recent public consultation on delivering inclusive websites. Enabling social media initiatives for consultation and participation that can be inclusive for all. Building of online communities by local govt. that are vibrant and welcoming such as City Soup in Canada |
| Andy Yeates | Environment Agency | Working with others | A case study on data management, content sharing and improving user experience. |
| Sheenagh Reynolds | Directgov | TBA | Making the web local |
| David Dilley | Defra | Government web strategy | Evaluating social media |
| Vicky Lamburn | Worthing Borough Council | Pushing the boundaries in local authority website accessibility and design -- "Looking outwards and not inwards." | Evaluating trends in web development typical in the private/enthusiast sector and how these emerging principles can apply to local authority web service delivery without prejudicing content delivery or accessibility. |
| May Race | COI | Case studies illustrating how the social networking application Magic Studio has supported the cultural, heritage and education sectors | Example government web projects and experiences |
| Jenny Brown | Dept of Health | Why I love Twitter | |
| Lloyd Davis | Perfect Path | Using Social Media to make the conversation about public services smarter | Hyperlocal Media |
| Roger Wilson-Hinds | Screenreader.net CIC | Creating a level playing field for blind internet users. | Better inclusion by not having to pay out £700 for their accessibility to accessible websites |
| Ross Ferguson | DOG Digital & http://basiccraft.wordpress.com | Government is using social media. Cool... now what? | Great designs, smart actions and ahead-of-the-curve thinking about the digital future of big institutions |
| Edward Venning | Communities and Local Government | Is it really cool? Networking policy consultation and implementation | Joining it up with the big back office functions so that it actually delivers something |
| Tom Taylor | Headshift | Using the new web frameworks to make stuff that works (something like that) | |
| Stuart Bruce | Wolfstar | Using social media to facilitate local and regional parternerships | Demonstrating ROI |
| Tom Sawford | Media on Demand | Some solutions for using video | how to get people to engage: Are councils and departments marketing this? |
| Nigel Dunn | Redefine | Using WordPress - blogging and beyond | |
| Mike Bracken | Mike Bracken | Big media and new projects | How to change the rules of the press vs politics game |
| Ann Ogidi | Ann Ogidi | web 2.0 and government | 'we want a wiki-forum-board but mostly we want a blog': what do Divisions really want and why can't they say it? |
| Namitha Ranjith | Kapston | Web 2.0 | |
| Moray Angus | UK Trade & Investment | Govt. web strategy | shared services |
| Jonathan Gray | The Open Knowledge Foundation | Reusing PSI | Licensing issues, data visualisation, standards |
| dan mcquillan | internet.artizans | presenting the SocialInnovationCamp which will happen in March | civic action in the social web |
| Simon Dickson | Puffbox, blog | Open sources, no excuses (Wordpress, RSS etc) | Any corporate IT departments which actually, genuinely get it? Anyone?? |
| Chris Histed | PublicTechnology.net | Every/All | Listen and enjoy - and can also provide free pre-event promotion & post-event coverage for this on our website network [can a BarcampUKGovweb get in contact & we can set this up if it's useful? we have ~220,000 unique users/month |
| Shane McCracken | Gallomanor | Engaging with real people | How the Web2.0 bit fits with the rest of Govt Comms |
| Rajesh Joshi (Josh) | East of England Development Agency | unsure as yet | explaining the benefits in simple terms to non-IT colleagues! |
| Steph Gray | Reading Room, DIUS | Creating a 'safe' space for experimentation | Going beyond the corporate website to engage with stakeholders online |
| Sharon Cooper | Directgov | Government web strategy | Balancing accessibility, usability, and web 2.0 technologies |
| Ivo Gormley / Ian Drysdale | thinkpublic | public services and social production | government web strategy |
| Sam Smith | disruptiveproactivity.com / mysociety volunteer | standing on the shoulders of, well, something: spindifferent.com www.directionlessgov.com | lots of stuff |
| Mikel Maron | OpenStreetMap, PlanningAlerts | | |
| Francis Davey | Barrister | Opening access to legal sources (statutes, cases) controlled by government | anything really |
| Christian Nold | www.softhook.com | Community Mapping, bottom-up representation | |
| Jack Thurston | www.farmsubsidy.org | Budget monitoring; EU dimensions, data | maps, photos, graphs, useful user-generated content |
| Cllr Jason Kitcat | Brighton & Hove City Council/Open Rights Group | | Is Gov the best org to be delivering much of what we're after? |
| James Burke | www.lifesized.net, www.p2pfoundation.net , beroepseer.nl | participatory platforms | Building bridges across Europe |
| Emma Persky | travellerwithatale.wordpress.org | Usability, Usability, Usability | Youth, Government and the Web |
| Graham Francis | Directgov (editor, contractor) | content and its malcontents: what's working, what's not? | Perspectives on govt web strategy |
| Mark Cheverton | Opportunity Links | The barriers to information integration in local gov | web2.0, semantic web, social software, standards |
| Tom Loosemore | Ofcom | Public Service Data | Semantic Web / practical ideas for using public digital data |
| Helen Lewis | HM Treasury | Web strategy | Web 2.0 in practice |
| Rob Blackie | Blue Rubicon | Campaigning using new tools | Meeting all the interesting people attending |
| Josie Fraser | SocialTech | UK education & skills stratergy | web 2.0 for social participation |
| David Hamilton | Fenland Council | TBA | Community engagement - online |
| Charlton Barreto | Adobe | Web 20-20 | Architecture for the new internet |
| Stéphane Vincent / Nicolas Chung (France) | 27th Region, Caisse des Dépôts | Shaping the future of local governments and policies | Why so many eGov projets fail + Gov innovation |
| Alberto Cottica (Italy) | Department of Economic Development | User generated government | How do you sell web-style transparency to public sector officials? |
| Jim Segers | City Mine(d), www.citymined.org | Urban Intervenors | |
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