BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
BarcampUKGovweb
What?
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.
A Google email group has been created as another communication medium, so it might be an idea to sign up to that. Also, the event is listed on Facebook.
Why?
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.
• What does this all mean?
• How does it all fit together?
• What skills / resources are organisations going to need in future?
• Who's done it already?
• How do you actually do this stuff?
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.
When?
We plan to run this event during the last weekend of January 2008: at least Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th if there's enough demand.
Who should attend?
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 to you. If demand and space results in us becoming oversubscribed, we may limit spaces to a representative sample of the above.
Sign up further down this page, and be prepared to lead a session on something.
Where?
Location not yet decided, but somewhere in central London so that if you need to stay the variety of options will overwhelm you.
We need to find somewhere with a large communal space, smaller breakout rooms (six?), catering and possibly sleeping too. Do you know somewhere (see sponsors below)?
Participants
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 - transparency, collaboration, emergence | 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 | Revevol | Make it realistic, pragmatic and deliverable. | Tying in with other comms strategies across govt (process and technical perspective). Also, inclusive of non-tech savvy (eg not us!). |
| 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 |
| Anna Tan | Government Office for the English Regions | Using social media in government intranets | Good practice examples of social media on the public sector |
| 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 | Web strategy | Good practice examples of sharing experience and content across the public sector |
| 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 |
| 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 | Could be anywhere by January! | | 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 | TBA | Examples of government web projects and experiences |
| Jenny Brown | Dept of Health | TBC | |
| 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 |
| Tom Taylor | Headshift | TBC | |
| Stuart Bruce | Wolfstar | Using social media to facilitate local and regional parternerships | Demonstrating ROI |
| Harris Vallianatos | Sustainable Development Commission | e-engagement and Policy Making, doing it the hard way! | Using video |
| Tom Sawford | Media on Demand | Some solutions for using video | how to get people to engage: Are councils and departments marketing this? |
Volunteers
add your name to this list if you're prepared to help make the event happen by becoming involved in its organisation
Jeremy Gould
Adam McGreggor (time permitting)
Graham Higgins
William Heath
Mercedes Clark-Smith
Daintree Peters
Emma Mulqueeny
Anna Tan
Julia Chandler
James Corrigan (also time permitting!)
Ian Dunmore
David Prever
Dave Briggs
Vin Sumner
Nettie Williams
Alex Butler
Paul Caplan
Justin Kerr-Stevens
Dorothy Atcheson
Noel Hatc
Andy Yeates
Sheenagh Reynolds
Stuart Bruce - can assist with goodie bags, t-shirts at least
Sponsors
Some of the things we need, and hope various organisations can provide:
• a location - requirements detailed above
• food - breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks for the two days
• drink - cold, hot, soft, hard - wine for \"geek dinners\" I know this isn't really a dinner, but I'd be happy to make contact and see if they could do anything for us. JC
• wifi - hopefully the location will be able to provide this too.
• goodies - as is customary at barcamps, at least T-shirts for all the attendees.
• entertainment - maybe some sort of social event on the Saturday evening
To do list
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
Wifi
Projector, White Boards
Photo
Video
Audio
Non-tech
Breakfast
Lunch
Coffee/Tea
Tables and chairs
Name badges - Emma M and Stimulation Ltd will supply name badges and plastic wallets (with person to dish out and collect)
Schedule
...will be posted here as it develops.
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag ( barcampukgovweb) for content related to this event
Who's blogging?
Add your name and URL to this list if you intend to blog at the event. This will help other participants to follow the build up and post-event coverage.
Blog posts
Some Background Reading
• BarcampWellingtonNZeGov
• Transformational Government
• Ideal Gov comment on Transformational Government
• [http://www.directionlessgov.com/results/?as_q=web+2.0
|Directionless Government]
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The power of information review
• The Government web strategy - back of a fag packet version
• BBC - Government websites 'too complex'
• Norway creates first Web 2.0 government
The rules of BarCamp (as listed by barcamp.org) are:
• 1st Rule: You do talk about Bar Camp.
• 2nd Rule: You do blog about Bar Camp.
• 3rd Rule: If you want to present, you must write your topic and name in a presentation slot.
• 4th Rule: Only three word intros.
• 5th Rule: As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
• 6th Rule: No pre-scheduled presentations, no tourists.
• 7th Rule: Presentations will go on as long as they have to or until they run into another presentation slot.
• 8th Rule: If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present. (Ok, you don't really HAVE to, but try to find someone to present with, or at least ask questions and be an interactive participant.)
