Nov 08 2006
Bright Ideas II
The Bright Ideas: Using technology to support and involve conference in Newham was my first ‘official engagement’ as London ICT Champion.
The event featured a number of voluntary/statutory sector projects show-casing innovative uses of technology to improve the quality of life and give a voice to communities often marginalised from mainstream society.
Whilst there, I got chatting to David Wilcox, who writes about using technology to enable community engagement and cross-sector partnerships. As a way of bringing conferences to life, David video-blogs speakers and particpants. David says that most people are more than happy to talk about their project for 2 minutes or so – and it certainly a more accessible way of getting a message over without having to plough through yards of text.
You can catch David’s video-blog of myself and Microsoft’s Chris Yapp at Bright Ideas here. I’m sorry to say that when confronted with a camera, my elevator pitch about the London ICT Champion quickly evaporated and I ended up waffling rather desperately. I don’t know if it made any sense, but there you are.
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