John Craig
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John is Director of The Innovation Exchange, which works to grow innovation from the third sector
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- Sure Start's premature obituary Last week, Norman glass, the father of Sure Start, claimed in the Guardian that the flagship programme had been killed off. The government, for the their part, argued that it had simply been ?rolled-out? to the whole country. Both are an exaggeration ? while Children?s Centres mark a new phase for Sure Start, the broader debate about its principles goes on. As Norman Glass himself observed in an earlier article, one key principle is that of local public involvement and initiative. On... from : johncraig 11th January 2005
- The naked company There?s a good review on Slashdot of a book called The Naked Corporation, which discusses the effects of new standards of openness. The review argues that tools such as Google make it easy for customers and activists alike to hold companies to account, so that they increasingly have to take the initiative, making openness a priority of their own. For me, one interesting example of such a tool is the Parking Lot Indicatr, to which anyone can submit a night time picture of a company?s car park... from : johncraig 25th January 2005