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Demos will publish a pamphlet highlighting new thinking about privacy in the UK. ‘UK Confidential’ seeks to address the future challenges of the privacy agenda in an increasingly open society. Social transformation, increasing surveillance and rapid technological innovation are redrawing the boundaries between the personal and the public. In an attempt to rediscover the social value of privacy, this collection argues that we need to collectively negotiate a new settlement between the individual and society; the public and the state; and the consumer and business.
To find out more about the pamphlet and the launch contact Charlie Edwards at Charlie.edwards@demos.co.uk
Demos will launch ‘The Talking Cure’ on the 14 May. The pamphlet argues that it is the innovative relationships developing between doctors and their patients, as much as the development of new technologies and treatments which are vital in the prevention and management of chronic illness.
The launch will be held at the Royal College of Physicians in London. David Colin–Thome and Richard Horton will speak on the future of medicine and healthcare in the UK.
For more information on the pamphlet and the launch please contact Faizal.farook@demos.co.uk. To RSVP please email talkingcure@demos.co.uk
Projects and Publications
A new pamphlet by Jamie Bartlett and Simon Parker, together with the State Services Authority of the Victoria State Government, asks how agility can aid government in meeting changing citizen needs, and in shaping those needs in the first place.
The pamphlet, “Towards Agile Government”, is now available from the State Services Authority web-site: http://www.ssa.vic.gov.au/ and will be launched in the UK next month.
Jamie Bartlett will be in Zagreb, Croatia next week, working with the British Council on trust in government in South East Europe. The project brings together 15 high ranking politicians, civil servants, and civil society from Armenia, Albania, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, and Turkey. The focus will be on designing action plans to help encourage greater citizen engagement and cooperation in the region.
If you’d like to find out more or to meet up please send an email to Jamie.bartlett@demos.co.uk
Social Resilience and National Security
Demos has launched a report into how local communities and social resistance can and should play a vital role in national security and counter terrorism strategies in the UK.
For more information, please contact rachel.briggs@demos.co.uk
Partner Thinking
Following on from FYI: the new politics of personal information, Demos will be launching a year long project aimed at exploring practical realities of identity technology.
Government and private sector organisations are developing new technologies for managing 'identities' through the use of personal information, from loyalty cards to the way government handles medical records. Demos will be working with technology experts, policy makers, academics and members of the public to develop a series of practical, participative public engagement experiments that look at how technologies can be designed, in practice, to embed democratic principles into personal information policy.
If you would like more information, or would be interested in partnering on the research, please contact peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk.
Space for Thought
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