Presented on Tuesday 6 September at NCVO Campaigning Conference 2016.
Peter Bryant, Head of Learning Technology and Innovation, London School of Economics and Political Science
Tim Hughes, Open Government Programme Manager, Involve
Nick Davies, Public Services Manager, NCVO (chair)
If you would like to find out more about our training and events, visit our website at https://www.ncvo.org.uk/training-and-events.
Disconnecting with Social Networking SiteBen Light
Connection and connectivity have become significant areas of emphasis in our definitions of SNS and in our understandings of how these technologies are used. Based on qualitative interviews with a variety of people who engage with a diverse range of SNS I will put forward an alternate reading that emphasises disconnection as integral to our lived experiences of SNS activity. From my analysis, I have developed a theory of disconnective practice. Disconnective practice refers to the potential modes of human and non-human disengagement with the connective attempts made possible with SNS. These modes of disengagement sit in relationship to our experiences of a particular site, between and amongst different sites and with regard to these sites and our physical worlds. Disconnective practice highlights SNS as operationally contradictory whereby connection and disconnection coexist and can be mutually necessary.
Presented on Tuesday 6 September at NCVO Campaigning Conference 2016.
Peter Bryant, Head of Learning Technology and Innovation, London School of Economics and Political Science
Tim Hughes, Open Government Programme Manager, Involve
Nick Davies, Public Services Manager, NCVO (chair)
If you would like to find out more about our training and events, visit our website at https://www.ncvo.org.uk/training-and-events.
Disconnecting with Social Networking SiteBen Light
Connection and connectivity have become significant areas of emphasis in our definitions of SNS and in our understandings of how these technologies are used. Based on qualitative interviews with a variety of people who engage with a diverse range of SNS I will put forward an alternate reading that emphasises disconnection as integral to our lived experiences of SNS activity. From my analysis, I have developed a theory of disconnective practice. Disconnective practice refers to the potential modes of human and non-human disengagement with the connective attempts made possible with SNS. These modes of disengagement sit in relationship to our experiences of a particular site, between and amongst different sites and with regard to these sites and our physical worlds. Disconnective practice highlights SNS as operationally contradictory whereby connection and disconnection coexist and can be mutually necessary.
New media continues to shake up the way organizations work since it opens up processes and encourages user/member participation -- the key being to empower individuals to make the change they want to see in the world. This session will look at emerging trends in social tech and the principles that form the basis of effective online campaigns/communications. Participants will get a hype-free look at some examples of successful online initiatives, discuss what went into these successes, and share their own experiences and ideas.
My keynote from GOVIS 09 - http://govis.org.nz/conference2009/govis-2009-conference-handbook.htm
It looks at possibilities and the opportunities offered by a shift in practice in government engagement - Government 2.0.
Full transcript and comments at http://acidlabs.org/2009/05/21/public-engagement-public-empowerment/.
Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution: Digital Citizenship and Civic Engagement i...Crowdsourcing Week
London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) launched an innovative civic engagement project, which aimed to crowd source the United Kingdom Constitution. One of the key intentions of the project was to leverage and magnify the power of the community and the ‘massive’ in order to empower.
By Peter Bryant, London School of Economics and Political Science. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016. Learn more and join the next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
New media continues to shake up the way organizations work since it opens up processes and encourages user/member participation -- the key being to empower individuals to make the change they want to see in the world. This session will look at emerging trends in social tech and the principles that form the basis of effective online campaigns/communications. Participants will get a hype-free look at some examples of successful online initiatives, discuss what went into these successes, and share their own experiences and ideas.
My keynote from GOVIS 09 - http://govis.org.nz/conference2009/govis-2009-conference-handbook.htm
It looks at possibilities and the opportunities offered by a shift in practice in government engagement - Government 2.0.
Full transcript and comments at http://acidlabs.org/2009/05/21/public-engagement-public-empowerment/.
Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution: Digital Citizenship and Civic Engagement i...Crowdsourcing Week
London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) launched an innovative civic engagement project, which aimed to crowd source the United Kingdom Constitution. One of the key intentions of the project was to leverage and magnify the power of the community and the ‘massive’ in order to empower.
By Peter Bryant, London School of Economics and Political Science. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016. Learn more and join the next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
The exponential growth of social media and ubiquitous use of mobile technology has changed the way we communicate both socially and for many also professionally. It is therefore timely to consider how social media can be used to develop personal learning networks and through open sharing find opportunities to also develop our scholarly practice.
This presentation was given as a public lecture at the Open University of Catalonia Edul@b, Barcelona Growth Centre
@UOCuniversitat @edulab
Navigating the Marvellous: Openness in Education - #altc 2014Catherine Cronin
Keynote presentation for #ALTC 2014. A fuller link to video & a summary of the keynote is here: http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/navigating-marvellous/
Abstract: Inspired by a Seamus Heaney poem (Lightenings viii), I’ll explore “navigating the marvellous”, the challenge of embracing open practices, of being open, in higher education, from the perspective of educators and students, citizens and policy makers. To be in higher education is to learn in two worlds: the open world of informal learning and networked connections, and the predominantly closed world of the institution. As higher education moves slowly, warily, and unevenly towards openness, students deal daily with the dissonance between these two worlds; navigating their own paths between them, and developing different skills, practices, and identities in the various learning spaces which they visit and inhabit. Educators also make daily choices about the extent to which they teach, share their work, and interact, with students and others, in bounded and open spaces. How might we construct and navigate Third Spaces of learning, not formal or informal but combined spaces where connections are made between students and educators (across all sectors), scholars, thinkers, and citizens — and where a range of identities and literacy practices are welcomed? And if, as Joi Ito has said, openness is a survival trait for the future, how do we facilitate this process of “opening education”? The task is one not just of changing practices but of culture change; we can learn much from other movements for justice, equality and social change.
Social media and e-Professionalism in Social Work Practice and EducationClaudia Megele
Social Media & e-Professionalism: Impact and Implications for Social Work Practice and Education
Keynote at the First Annual Conference of the Yorkshire and Humber Children Services and Higher Education Network
What are some of the implications of new media and digital and social technologies for health and social care services?
What are the impact and implications of new digital media and social technologies for social work and social care practice and education?
Understanding Networked Scholars: Experiences and practices in online social ...George Veletsianos
Slides from an invited talk given to the The 4th International Conference on E-learning and Distance Education located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Online journals, online forums, and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are an integral part of open and digital scholarship, which is often seen as a major breakthrough in radically rethinking the ways in which knowledge is created and shared. In this presentation I situate networked practices in open/digital scholarship and explain what scholars and professors do online, and, why they do the things that the do. I conclude by describing 3 themes pervasive in scholarly networks: identify networks, networks of conflict, and networks of disclosure.
How Successful Crowdsourcing Depends on asking 'Interesting Questions'Crowdsourcing Week
Writing Interesting Questions is as much art as as science. Here are some 100%Open has written recently. How can we double the fun of the LEGO play experience? How can I wash my home, myself, or my clothes with a single cup of water? (Unilever) How can we enable all Detroiters to travel more easily, safely and reliably? (Ford) How can we empower investors and their advisers to consider the CO2 impact of their investment decisions? (UBS) How can we help people do good by using their mobile phone in 3 minutes or less? (EE) Our Interesting Question methodology (https://www.100open.com/toolkit_2/interesting-question/) ensure that questions are accessible, contagious and as inspiring to the Challenge Holder organisation as they are to the Innovator target group.
Contestant Centered Design: creative approaches to designing competitionsCrowdsourcing Week
Creativity is critical to solving complex problems, developing new strategies, facilitating innovation, and driving organizational change. NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research Division’s open innovation efforts focuses on advancing wireless communications for America’s first responders by leveraging expertise and innovative solutions through crowdsourcing and collaboration. Success relies on creating competitions that achieve NIST’s organizational goals, incentivize world class science, remove barriers to entry, and maximize participation. Not an easy equation to balance. This session will discuss how design tradeoffs are considered for a variety of competition elements as concepts develop into a competition and as competitions are implemented. The goal of this interactive session is to provide a behind-the-scenes view of our process, engage audience ideas, and dive into a discussion about crowdsourcing and contestant-centered design.
Ethan will talk about the opportunity to reward crowdsourcing participants through crypto assets/tokens that allows the possibility of performing many micro transactions, saving costs for both the business and the users. In addition, the topic of transparency coming from the blockchain sector where business are now becoming more open to have the public help with tough R&D questions that in the past would have been kept internal. The blockchain industry is in fact growing communities as their branding strategy from the start, and rely on transparency for their community to trust them. All in all, we are seeing the tools in the making to ignite crowdsourcing’s future potential within decentralized business models. Lastly, we will dive into current use case studies from crowdholding.com, on creating a crowd rewarding mechanism for both crowd intelligence and crowd marketing.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
What is the point of small housing associations.pptxPaul Smith
Given the small scale of housing associations and their relative high cost per home what is the point of them and how do we justify their continued existance
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
How Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution Built a Learning Community
1. How Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution
Built a Learning Community
Peter Bryant @peterbryantHE
Head of Learning Technology and Innovation
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Crowdsourcing democracy and learning in a messy, fragmented world
2. The PROPOSITION
• Deliver a written constitution that was crowd
sourced by a representative community
• Ensure that it clearly represented the will of the
people
• Do it before the May 2015 election
• Make sure it was civil and engaging
• Provide an educational experience that did not look
like or work like a course in constitutional law
6. ‘…it’s through participation in communities that
deep learning occurs. People don’t learn to
become physicists by memorizing formulas;
rather it’s the implicit practices that matter most.
Indeed, knowing only the explicit, mouthing the
formulas, is exactly what gives an outsider away.
Insiders know more. By coming to inhabit the
relevant community, they get to know not just the
“standard” answers, but the real questions,
sensibilities, and aesthetics, and why they
matter.’
BROWN, J. S. Learning in the digital age
13. Combination of learning approaches
Integrating participatory practices
Engaged individuals and groups
No readings, no course,
No lecturer, no teacher, maybe a guru
No sequence, enter at any time
Learning was an expectation
Learning through practice, debate and citizenship
What we built
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leolondon/451273331
14. Where we finished
over 1500 users;
over 725 idea submissions;
over 125000 idea views;
over 10000 comments;
over 25000 votes cast;
an 8500 word constitution;
from more than 1m words written.
Over 75% learnt something and 88&% were influenced by the community
Participation went up across the project not DOWN https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/1470015134
18. ‘Social media has facilitated a complex, co-created and immediate form of
learning response, where content and openness challenge the closed,
structured nature of modern higher education. Social media has had
significant impacts on the way learners connect with people and with the
knowledge they require in order to learn across a variety of contexts. Social
media support more than user interactivity, they support the development and
application of user-generated content, collaborative learning, network
formation, critical inquiry, relationship building, information literacy, dynamic
searching and reflection.’
BRYANT, PETER (2015) Disrupting how we ‘do’ on-line learning
through social media: a case study of the crowdsourcing the
UK constitution project.
19. What happens when you empower a community to learn and
engage in social change?
Does this build an informed digital citizenry?
Can this be more than civic engagement? Problem solving,
capacity development or change?
And that’s what is next…
Editor's Notes
Lots of caveats and learning points:
1500 Users
Conversion rate of 9.35% is impressive – 100/(15991*1497)
Possibly higher, once taken into account single user + multiple devices
Geography
England ~89%
Scotland ~ 7%
Wales ~3%
NI <1%
Gender
70% Male
30% Female
Age
18-24 – 8.6%
25-34 – 23.53%
35-44 – 15.01%
45-54 – 17.19%
55-64 – 13.02%
+65 – 22.65%
700 Ideas - duplicate ideas, conflicting ideas, irrelevant ideas:
Voting resulted in ~50% sift of ideas
Engagement stats are good:
20% of total sessions >10mins
9% of total sessions >30mins
45% of sessions >5page views,
28% >10
20% >15
16% >20
Massive was at the core of the design
Redefine what massive means
...in number.
...in representation.
...in activity.
...common experience
How do you leverage the massive as more than a number? How do realise that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?
earning elements of project not obvious, but visible to user & essential to success:
76% had expectations of learning elements
75-85% learned at least a little about topic areas, 51% some or a lot
88% were influenced by community discussion in their contributions / responses (22% often, 66% sometimes)
50% changed their mind on how citizens can engage in / collaboratively create change in politics
60-80% gained at least some skills, 40-60% somewhat or a lot
strong association between being influenced by community responses and gaining skills → the model at work?
further tests needed, but data points towards learning as crucial to engagement strategy & success of project
Many MOOCs are massive only in terms of numbers
How do you leverage skills and experience, along with collective intelligence and debate?
Using the massive to engage in ‘Open Social Research’ and informed learning
No beginning or ending/opening the structure
Opening knowledge and learning to the community
Digital citizenship as open as the modes of engagement
Opening the academy
Embracing non-linearity
Open/open not open/closed