{"id":735,"date":"2013-02-12T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/?p=735"},"modified":"2013-02-12T11:39:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:39:47","slug":"digital-participation-new-enquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/2013\/02\/12\/digital-participation-new-enquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital participation – new enquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is to run an enquiry into digital participation in Scotland<\/a>, the aim being<\/p>\n to ensure that digital technologies help to narrow the social divide, rather than widen it, and that the opportunities for economic development presented by digital technologies can be realised across Scotland’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The benefits of digital participation for individuals, communities, public bodies, businesses and voluntary organisations are, says the Society, well documented and it wants to take stock of the social, economic and cultural communities across Scotland that are not yet enjoying these benefits.<\/p>\n Well one community that is not yet enjoying these benefits is the public sector where digital participation is woefully inadequate, mainly because employees are generally discouraged or blocked from participating. Some examples:<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Royal Society of Edinburgh is to run an enquiry into digital participation in Scotland, the aim being to ensure that digital technologies help to narrow the social divide, rather than widen it, and that the opportunities for economic development presented by digital technologies can be realised across Scotland’. The benefits of digital participation for… Read More »Digital participation – new enquiry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6352,6353,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nWe trust you with a baton and with the right to take away someone’s liberty, I think we can trust you with a Twitter account.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n