Economy and governance series
The Web Beyond 20:
Building Digital Britain
> Takes place
5:30 for 6 pm to 7:45 pm (followed by drinks), Thursday 4 June 2009
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> At
NESTA, 1 Plough Place, off New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1DE
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> Outline
With the Digital Britain report, which coincided with the 20th anniversary of the Web, debates about the network society have come to the fore as people in politics and business respond to the recession, the challenges of national competitiveness, and media futures.
At this event we will consider what we can learn from 20 years of the Web about successful social developments around technology, about large scale innovation, and where we should focus research and development for the next decade of the Web. We also hope to develop the Digital Britain discussion in a broader, thoughtful, innovative and ambitious fashion.
The event will focus on informal debate and discussion, and the participation of attendees will be critical.
This event is part of the the Digital Britain Unconference series, which was initiated in response to the Digital Britain Summit, which took place in April after the publication of the Digital Britain Interim Report.
> And costs
Voluntary contribution (£15 suggested) but no payment required. Drinks and snacks kindly provided by NESTA.
> Booking details
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John Naughton
Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology
Open University
John is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, where he directs the Relevant Knowledge programme in the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge and Academic Adviser to the Arcadia Project at Cambridge University Library, which is exploring the role of academic libraries in a digital age. He writes a column in the Business section of the Observer, having been its TV Critic. His book on the origins and evolution of the Internet, A Brief History of the Future (Phoenix, 2000), has been published in several languages. He is co-founder and non-executive director of Cambridge Visual Networks, a start-up that has invented an innovative way of displaying and managing screen-based displays. [Read on on John’s Open University ‘occasionally asked questions’ page]
Clive Grinyer
Director of Customer Experience
Cisco IBSG
Clive is Director of Customer Experience for Europe in Cisco’s IBSG global strategic consultancy unit, working with organisations around the world on thought leadership and future visions of technology. Previously he was Director of Design at Orange France Telecom, involved in the design of the next generation of mobile and wireless products. He has held senior positions at the Design Council, Samsung Design Europe, TAG McLaren Audio, IDEO (in the US and UK), and Fitch, and was a founder of design company Tangerine with Martin Darbyshire and Jonathan Ive (now VP of design at Apple).He is a passionate advocate for design and design thinking, and is author of Smart Design (RotoVision, 2001). [Read on at Clive’s site]
Mark Birbeck
Managing director
Backplane
Mark is managing director of Backplane Ltd. He works on standards and applications at the juncture of rich user interfaces and the Semantic Web. To help these two worlds communicate, he invented RDFa. He is an invited expert at the W3C where he is deeply involved with XForms and XHTML 2. Alongside his standards work, he has instigated a number of open source projects, including the Ubiquity XForms and Ubiquity RDFa Ajax libraries. His commercial work involves consultancy, development, and training, in XForms and RDFa. He is involved in a number of projects for the Central Office of Information, which use RDFa. [Full biography on webBackplane site.]
Chair: Nico Macdonald
Principal
Spy
Nico Macdonald writes, researches, and consults on innovation, technology and society. HIs current research project is on the development of the Internet. [Profile on LinkedIn]
Themes
The questions we want to address include:
- What do we understand and appreciate about how the Internet came into being, the forces that shaped it and the ‘affordances’ that allowed it to grow;
- How these learnings can help us to facilitate other large scale innovation;
- What quality of change we been able to facilitate in our lives using these technologies: in business and industry, work and private life, and the social and political spheres;
- Where are the limits of and barriers to innovation around the Internet;
- What are our visions for the future of the network society
Books and Reports
DCMS/DBERR: Digital Britain: The Interim Report, January 2009 [see also the Digital Britain forum]
The Digital Revolution: the Coming Crisis of the Creative Class, Charles Leadbeater, 2009. A draft response to the British government’s Digital Britain report.
See the report of the Digital Britain Unconference series
Reports on and recordings of related events
See the Digital Britain Unconference series
See Upcoming.org events tagged DigitalBritain
Articles
Rollover for article summaries. Source shared bookmarks tagged DigitalBritain on Delicious. See also others’ shared bookmarks tagged
DigitalBritain on Delicious.
Raw notes
We are encouraging live journaling at the event (via Twitter). Please use the tag dbuc09, which is being used for all the Digital Britain Unconference events. To find raw notes on the event you will be able to do a Twitter search for dbuc09.
Pictures
If you want to share photos taken at the event via Flickr, please tag a public Flickr photo with: upcoming:event=2789394
If you have queries about the event please email Nico Macdonald
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