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[Jeremy Gould]

Dear all, I meant to post this up last week but it slipped my mind.
I've tried to synthesize down the notes I posted up here a while back.

Its still in bullet form and I would really appreciate any additions /
changes from the group.

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/digitalbutetown/web/workshop-output-consolidated?hl=en
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

[Greg Cannon]

Forgive me if this has been covered; but what is the "need" this
project is addressing?
E.g. the needs may be simply addressing some of the obvious
'exclusion' items:
- No-one is listening to me (who is 'no-one', the council, official
bodies, etc. how will you get these to listen)
- There is nothing here for me (a classic teenager view, what do they
want to do; who can provide this, how do you get these onboard)
- There are no jobs / opportunities for me (who are the key employers,
what positions are they looking to fill, would a local 'jobs' /
'opportunities' board help.)
- Our community is not represented in any of the official / council
sponsored domains (e.g. in marketing Cardiff the fact 50+ languages
are spoken in the city is a selling point; but this is not reflected
in the majority of marketing campaigns. What better way to reflect
this diversity than to 'crowd source' these groups to e.g. create
language specific areas of official websites)

Hope this helps.

[David Barrie]

Greg

Sorry it's taken time to respond to your comment.

The needs that have been expressed to date - and summarized by me from
conversations with local people:

- "It would be great to have a community website."
- "It would be interesting to know more of how our work with the
community could be done using the Internet."
- "I'd love to know more about how we can make our Ning group more
effective."
- "I create music at home. I'd like to know more about how I can use
the internet to help me compose music but also share it with others."
- "I'd like to be able to talk to the people who walk past my window.
I don't know whether the Internet can help. Members of the community
group I work with can just about use email. But I'd like more
opportunities to get to know people in my community. Maybe the
Internet is one way of doing this."
- "We'd like to involve students and parents in online communities
centered around our school and its curriculum."

Contextual needs:

- Cardiff City Council: want to use online social media in public
consultation and advance broadband provision and use in the capital
- Welsh Assembly: want to advance regional development of Digital
Britain's National Plan for Digital Participation
- Communities 2.0: want to advance digital participation (but
geographies are confined due to European funding - and does *not*
include Butetown)
- igloo Regeneration: need to put in digital infrastructure around
Roath Basin development site (preferred location for first phase re-
location of BBC production facilities in the country)
- Everyone: support social cohesion, counter fragmentation

So, in answer to your question, there's a more vicarious interest in
exploiting or promoting the possible power of online social media: no
fixed objectiive in terms of curing a specific ill.