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Presentation made to the Telling Trusths, Changing Minds Comms Cymru event on 29th November 2012 revealing how social innovation approaches and digital community curation practice can enable meaningful digital inclusion. The presentation focuses on the MonmouthpediA Techno-Social Innovation project and its implications for Digital Inclusion Policy and Practice.
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Matt Chilcott
PhD ResearcherCommunities 2.0
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Attribution: dcOde_null Flickr: Binary Contemplation
Telling Truths, Changing Minds
Matt Chilcott
PhD ResearcherCommunities 2.0
PhD Digital Inclusion & Social Justice
A correlation exists between enabling meaningful digital inclusion and the manner in which internet tools are constructed and utilised to support excluded members of society express their sense of identity and cultural heritage.
DIJ: Digital Inclusion Journal web space
- digital scholarship research methodology
- portal of sources, evidence base and dissemination to practitioners, researchers & policy makers.
http://www.raglanundersiege1646.co.uk
Matt Chilcott
PhD ResearcherCommunities 2.0
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Research Context - living through the digital revolution
World Wide Web Foundation: Web Index (2012) – UK ranking 3rd – social, economic and political importance of the internet across nations.
Digital by Default Government policy (2012) – Universal Credit: online benefits from 2013.
Dr Ellen Helsper Emergence of a Digital Underclass Policy Briefing (2011) – review of ONS statistics – emphasis on low education attainment groups.
1 in 3 of the Welsh Adult population are digitally excluded (2011) – emphasis on older people.
Wales: A Truly Digital Nation (2012).
Matt Chilcott
PhD ResearcherCommunities 2.0
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Research Context - living through the digital revolution
Internet access no longer restricted to the home and workplace – mobile and pervasive internet access the norm in next 3 years - opportunity for more creative ‘stories of place’ based digital engagement methodologies – learning from the Internet of Things research field.
Government policy at its best when it seeks to deliver social innovation e.g. Aneurin Bevan & the National Health Service.
Need for social innovation approach to tacking digital exclusion – create new social value and meaning that addresses social exclusion – strategy of digital community curation celebrating cultural heritage, identity and sense of place.
Local people’s voice, reminiscence and stories shared and co-created with others across the digital global village.
Case Study - MonmouthpediA – a techno-social innovation project embracing a digital community curation methodology
MonmouthpediA is a World first Techno-Social Innovation project which attempted to use Wikipedia (the People’s Encyclopedia) to cover every notable place, person, artefact, plant, animal and other things in Monmouth in as many languages as possible.
Devised by John Cummings and supported by Wiki Media UK, Monmouthshire County Council, CMC2 and local and global content creating contributors.
Philosophical underpinning - Knowledge gives us context and it allows us to appreciate our surroundings more.
The Council for British Archaeology designated Monmouth as the seventh best town for archaeology in Britain.
Monmouthpedia uses QRpedia codes, a type of bar code a smartphone can read through its camera (using one of the many free QR readers available) that takes you to a Wikipedia article in your language.
Case Study - MonmouthpediA – a techno-social innovation project embracing a digital community curation methodology
Case Study - MonmouthpediA – a techno-social innovation project embracing a digital community curation methodology
Matt Chilcott
PhD ResearcherCommunities 2.0
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
MonmouthpediA : Key Digital Inclusion outcomes
International WikiMedia community voted MonmouthpediA the coolest project of 2012.
Huge impact on Monmouthshire communities wishing to create digital experiences within their own towns & villages & significant global profile of techno-social innovation emanating from Wales with evidence of new techy-tourists making purposeful visits to Monmouth.
Signposting to Welsh Government that although all content is available in the medium of Welsh there is no Mobile OS to deliver the content – issue of digital equality.
Not all Local Knowledge meets with Wikipedia’s Notability criteria & articles require academic style references to be approved.
Matt Chilcott
PhD ResearcherCommunities 2.0
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Beyond MonmouthpediA
Wales’ First Free Wifi Town now promoted to researchers and digital business leaders as a Digital Community Lab Test bed – social and economic drivers.
New digital community curation tools proving successful – History Pin & Placebooks.
Digital Community Curation practice has been embraced within the Communities 2.0 intervention programme – History Pin – online and on mobile publication with communities in the Valleys.
Investment from the People’s Collection Wales in Placebooks designed to allow communities to tell stories about place – online and on mobile with cached content to ensure on location access in Wales’ many not spots.
Matt Chilcott
PhD ResearcherCommunities 2.0
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Publications & online points of reference
Chilcott, M. (2013) Social Innovation and Digital Community Curation –Chapter contribution commissioned for the Digital World: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights: Routledge Book publication Howell, R. & Chilcott, M. (2012) Historical Research, Digital Heritage and Sense of Place International Journal of Intangible Heritage. Chilcott, M. & Smith, A. (2012) An analysis of the potential to utilize virtual worlds to enhance edutainment and improve the wellbeing of the ageing population Springer Serious Games and Interactive Worlds Special Edition Journal on the LNCS Transactions on Edutainment ISSN: 1867-7207
Chilcott, M. & Hartwig, J. (2009) NEWPORT DIGITAL: Community Empowerment through Digital Inclusion Proceedings of the 2009 Newport Nexus Learning and Research Conference ISBN 978-1-899274-38-3
Chilcott, M (2008) 'New media educational technologies applications for social inclusion' Brecon: Clip - Vol.34, No.2 Multimedia & Information Technology Journal ISSN 1499-90X
Delivering A Digital Wales http://goo.gl/0nt8U
Communities 2.0http://goo.gl/bqRPE
Digital Inclusion Journalhttp://goo.gl/KOaP9
MIT Press: The process of Social Innovationhttp://goo.gl/NCS5W
MonmouthpediAhttp://goo.gl/xL2Gr
History Pin http://www.historypin.com/map/
Placebooks http://www.placebooks.org/
CMC2 Twitter feed https://twitter.com/CMC_squared
Matt Chilcott
PhD ResearcherCommunities 2.0
Communities 2.0: Digital Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Social Justice
Attribution: dcOde_null Flickr: Binary Contemplation
Telling Truths, Changing Minds
