Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in the ways that information and knowledge is shared between people, and between people and government...
- Podcast: Going Dutch In this Demos podcast, over tea in the Demos kitchen after the final Going Dutch seminar, Rachel Briggs caught up with David Goodhart, editor of Prospect magazine, and Professor Paul Schnabel, General Director of the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands. continue reading on 9th February 2008 in Demos Podcasts
- We photo The Library of Congress recently began a fantastic trial with online photo sharing site Flickr. They've put up around 3000 of their photos up on their Flickr site. It's proving to be a really successful experiment - as of January 18th, apparently they had been veiwed over a million times. continue reading on 4th February 2008
- Podcast: The Everyday Democracy Index Yesterday saw the launch of the new Demos pamphlet The Everyday Democracy Index. It sets out the first set of results of an endeavour to measure how good countries are at empowering their citizens in everyday spheres of life - spheres such as neighbourhoods and communities, workplaces, public services and even the family. continue reading on 1st February 2008 in Demos Podcasts The Everyday Democracy Index
- BE A PODCAST, vol 3, ep. 1: Career Innovation In this episode of the Be A Podcast series, Peter Bradwell spoke to Jonathan Winter and Tony DiRomualdo of Career Innovation, authors of The Manifesto for the New Agile Workplace. continue reading on 24th January 2008 in Demos Podcasts
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QDOS
The FYI pamphlet was big on the need for ideas that can help people manage their personal information - and the trail of information we leave behind us that is often called our 'digital footprint'. That tells other people a lot about the kind of things a person likes and, ultimately, the sort of person they are.
So I thought it was worth mentioning Garlik's new tool 'QDOS', which looks like a really interesting and accessible way to start thinking about, and managing, that digital footprint... continue reading on 13th December 2007 in For Your Information -
FYI
Last Friday, 7th December, we launched FYI: the new politics of personal information, a pamphlet about how and why personal information has become so valuable and important.
Whilst there are many benefits to sharing our personal details, the current debate and attitude has seen us lose control over what other people know and think about us. People need to have more of a stake in influencing the rules that determine how and where their information is used. continue reading on 12th December 2007 in For Your Information -
The new politics of personal information
We've been telling anyone that will listen for a long time that personal information is really important. In the past couple of days it seems like we, and people like the Information Commissioner, have been proved right. The story details some terrible mistakes, but we can't stop with the bad news story. This is an opportunity to open the serious debate we need about how and why personal information is so valuable.
That's a debate we're calling for in the forthcoming pamphlet FYI: The new politics of personal information, which we're launching on 7th December. continue reading on 22nd November 2007 in For Your Information - Crossing the 'e's Yesterday the Prime Minister announced various anti-terrorism measures, including updates on the 'e-borders' program. There's a comment, about the speech and approach generally, from Timothy Garton-Ash here. I thought it was worth mentioning the e-borders news, especially in the light of our upcoming pamphlet on personal information. continue reading on 15th November 2007 in For Your Information Comments (1)
- The type of information people have matters Big 'Big Brother' headline today, on the front of the Daily Mail. A written answer to a question from the Liberal Democrats shows the number of DNA profiles on the National DNA Database (NDNA), as of 25 October, to be about 4.5 million profiles. I can't find the full written answer online yet, but here's some more coverage of it. Some are duplicates - but the proportion of the population on there seems to be about 6-7%.This isn't really news. The Home Office website proudly boasts that it is... continue reading on 5th November 2007 in For Your Information Comments (1)
- The structured web I just read a really useful post from the Read/WriteWeb blog about where the internet is heading. It summed up really well some of the significant trends: "Among the evolving aspects of the new web are Semantics, Attention (Implicit Behavior) and Personalization. Regardless of what we are decide to call this next web, the information in it is going to be more meaningful, more automatic, and more tailored to each of us... continue reading on 11th October 2007 in For Your Information Comments (1)