BarcampUKGovweb:About
From BarcampUKGovweb
A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
On Saturday 26th January 2008, civil servants and democracy geeks met at Google for BarCampUKGovWeb - a BarCamp about creating a shared understanding and commitment to the vision for UK government web activity and helping establish a UK government Digital Network to bring together the community of webbies within central government and the wider public sector.
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Why?
Government's approach to all things web and digital is changing for all sorts of reasons: transformational government/website rationalisation provides greater focus on a smaller number of online channels, the impact of - and opportunities presented by - web 2.0 are looming large in everyone's thoughts, online engagement and deliberation are buzz phrases around Whitehall.
- What does this all mean?
- How does it all fit together?
- What skills / resources are organisations going to need in future?
- Who's done it already?
- How do you actually do this stuff?
This BarCamp aimed to provide an opportunity to answer questions, create a shared vision and approach and to mobilise the government digital media community to improve our skills, knowledge and voice as a collective group.
What happened
See here (BarCamp wiki page) and here (post-event blog post by Jeremy Gould) and here (Pageflakes) and here (photos).
How are we following it up
There's a Google group (http://groups.google.co.uk/group/BarcampUKGovweb) for anyone interested in joining the discussion, this wiki - a repository of useful info and links in the making - and plans to meet again.
Get involved
If you're interested in what's happening but didn't attend the first BarCampUKGovWeb, it's not too late to get involved. Just join the discussion list, keep your eyes peeled for meetups or add to the wiki.
