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Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Oct 2, 2008

  How much government money is spent in your neighbourhood? cons08
So how much? Add it all together: policing, benefits, health, road repairs.  The lot.  How much?  You don’t know, in fact it probably cant be done. That is what Dick Atkinson realised 15 years ago. He runs the Balsall Heath Neighbourhood Forum and he wanted to know just how much...... [view]
Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 28, 2008

  Crime Mapping from the British Government based on a West Midlands example
Tom Watson , William Perrin and the Power of Information taskforce shows off some mock ups for crime mapping by neighbourhood and the whole social media story makes it onto the Telegraph’s front page with a couple of subsidiary articles – including one mentioning West Midlands...... [view]
Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 23, 2008

  Communities in Control: real people, real media.
Empowered people tend to be good at conversation, understand their place in networks, have experience of how networks help get things done. So it is very good news that the new Government Empowerment White Paper acknowledges that social media (the conversational web) will play a part in...... [view]
Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jun 30, 2008

  Review of the new Local Priorities web service from the Dept of Communities and Local Government
I do like the idea behind this new web service from the Department of Communities and Local Government which tells you what the Local Area Agreement is for improving the place you live in. Local Area Agreements are negotiated between a local council (plus the local strategic...... [view]
Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Mar 31, 2008

  Urban Obsessives or Civic Revolutionaries, they still look much like this…
Take a good look at this picture. It is full of what I would call ordinary folk. None of them appear to be super heroes, to fit the heroic mould we have created for our social entrepreneurs and active citizens. They are David Barrie’s fellow “bloody...... [view]
Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Mar 30, 2008

  Routes and barriers to citizen governance - a Joseph Rowntree Report from Birmingham and Wolverhampton
Good community leaders need to be connected, competent and of good character. That is one of the blindingly obvious conclusions of a survey in the West Midlands for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation . The researcher explains what they set out to do This study examined the realities of...... [view]
Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Mar 27, 2008

  Highbury 20 years on: Conference on the future of the city centre.
Architect and blogger Joe Holyoak has pulled together a conference to consider the future of the city centre 20 years after the Highbury Conference took a whole range of radical decisions for Birmingham. The flyer is here and a booking form (£40 for the day including lunch) for April 14th...... [view]
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