The Citizenscape December project meeting went much better than I hoped with the balance being in favour of actual work rather than EU project talk. Main points are: We made some real progress with the actual content for the sites and I believe that if we can keep to the development schedule then we will …
This is a short note prior to a proper post but as we move forward with getting the Citizenscape sites actually up and running you can start to see why the idea of co-creation needs to be so strong in the citizenscape methodology. The Citizenscape sites will be containers for different types of widgets which …
The team is going to get together in December in Brighton and apart from finding somewhere really good to take them to dinner I want to be clear on the objectives for the meeting: There are as ever some EU project formalities which need to be gone over – not the least because we have a …
Well – end of the first sprint and things have gone really well (and as I write I realise how rare it is to be able to say this!). The agile process has given us much more focus and it is really good for giving a real sense of progress to a project. We have …
I was at the Headstar edemocracy conference on Tuesday (link here) which was as ever a really good programme. The keynote speaker was the head of News from the BBC (Helen Boaden) and she gave an excellent presentation – not the least because she made excellent use of the AV and put up images and …
We (at work) have been looking at introducing Agile as a devlopment process so I have been reading up. As ever wikipedia gives a good overview but I also liked this site which has a simple template for listing work What I like about agile is the way that it integrates testing and specification into …
As I write it occurs to me that I will be mentioning Citizenscape a great deal and so it will be useful to at least provide the basic overview of what it is. Citizenscape is really three different things: Its an EU funded project: You can find out more at www.citizenscape.org. The project involves teams …
I found this useful sumamry of an action research diary (http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arr/arow/rdiary.html). The first thing that struck me was the need for me to have more structure in my posts. This suggests splitting posts under the following sections: Reflection Plan Action Observation So I might give this a go. I have at least added these as …
The data collection for the thesis is going to fall into two types: Action research notes from the project team Automated data collection from the CitizenScape websites The only thing that is essential in addition to this is to capture the baseline information so we can see what change has been effected by the Citizenscape …
One of the things we are trying to achieve with the project is a truely shared webspace that has been defined by allof the users and not just by the host organisation. When you try and create this kind of event with local government you end up talking about stakeholder meetings. This really is a …