At Monday’s Parliamentary briefing, ostensibly about whether the forthcoming election would be the UK’s first digital one, the distinguished MPs and Lords and Ladies who attended did what they do best and took hold of the conversation, repeatedly sidetracking it. They needed answers not about social media, but about a truly Web 1.0 phenomenon: how should they cope with the influx of emails that they get from their constituents? As digital experts, we’re expected to offer solutions to the firehose of email traffic (bearing in mind, of course, that we also receive a preposterous number of wants, needs, demands, desires from a truly random bunch of people who have the ability to type and press ‘send’). So how do we cope? In the interests of crowdsourcing a solution for the government employees of the United Kingdom, I reached out to the Twitterverse for a solution.
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[Lifestream] Twittersource: How should elected officials cope with inbox influx?
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[Event] SuperPower briefing at the House of Commons
Monday March 15, 2010 @ 12:18 PM (UTC)I’ve been invited to participate in a briefing to the House of Commons tomorrow about the BBC’s SuperPower report, of which the World Service radio adaptation of the 4-film BBC2 documentary series The Virtual Revolution is part. I’ll be joining an esteemed panel, including BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, who’ll be discussing the ways politicians are expected to embrace the Web during the forthcoming election, Pooneh Ghoddoosi from BBC Persian TV will draw on her personal experience of observing user-generated content in Iran to discuss how the Web can transform lives, and Peter Barron, Director of Communication of North and Central Europe at Google, who’ll take a wider view at how politicians, corporations and the government have dealt with the Web. I’ll try to throw as many spanners in the works as possible, arguing that the Web isn’t as liberating as everyone suggests. After all, as I said in this Observer piece, the Web is only a reflection of us and we like our silos. I’ll be introducing concepts of cyberbalkanisation, propaganda, and a historical view of how governments have coped with previous technologies.
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