http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/05/20/institutionalhack/ Social media, active citizens, podcasting, neighbourhoods and more. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:01:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/05/20/institutionalhack/#comment-19256 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:01:32 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/05/20/institutionalhack/#comment-19256 [...] Nick Booth passed this on to me a while back. It’s about a bid to government that was developed in a completely open and transparent manner. The entire story and process is available at the Open Innovation Exchange: This Open Innovation Exchange site was launched on April 22 2007 and used until May 14 2007 to develop an “open source bid” to the UK Cabinet Office, which invited proposals for a Third Sector innovation exchange. The invitation to tender for a £1.2 million three-year programme said: [...] [...] Nick Booth passed this on to me a while back. It’s about a bid to government that was developed in a completely open and transparent manner. The entire story and process is available at the Open Innovation Exchange: This Open Innovation Exchange site was launched on April 22 2007 and used until May 14 2007 to develop an “open source bid” to the UK Cabinet Office, which invited proposals for a Third Sector innovation exchange. The invitation to tender for a £1.2 million three-year programme said: [...]

]]> http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/05/20/institutionalhack/#comment-18260 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:51:21 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/05/20/institutionalhack/#comment-18260 [...] Just a quick update. Simon Berry tells me that he and his fellow naked bidders for the governments Open Innovation Exchange has been shortlisted with interviews coming up.  It will be interesting to see how far the Office of the Third Sector wants to encourage such “institutional hacks”. [...] [...] Just a quick update. Simon Berry tells me that he and his fellow naked bidders for the governments Open Innovation Exchange has been shortlisted with interviews coming up.  It will be interesting to see how far the Office of the Third Sector wants to encourage such “institutional hacks”. [...]

]]> http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/05/20/institutionalhack/#comment-17432 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:22:31 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/05/20/institutionalhack/#comment-17432 [...] David Wilcox has pulled together the elements of an impassioned and public spat about a Demos Report called The Dreaming City and the Power of Mass Imagination on the future of Glasgow. It has ideas relevant to any major UK City, especially Birmingham. You can get a taste of an early response from Demos here, but one of the key quotes mentioned by David is from Melissa Mean of Demos, who wrote the Glasgow report. In terms of new ideas to sustain the urban renaissance, our cities are running on empty. The cultural arms race of mainstream regeneration policy has become formulaic and is delivering diminishing returns for people and places. When every city has commissioned a celebrity architect and pedestrianised a cultural quarter, our cities are at risk of all becoming the same. Ouch. The spat aside, what the report is saying is that we need a series of institutional hacks: [...] [...] David Wilcox has pulled together the elements of an impassioned and public spat about a Demos Report called The Dreaming City and the Power of Mass Imagination on the future of Glasgow. It has ideas relevant to any major UK City, especially Birmingham. You can get a taste of an early response from Demos here, but one of the key quotes mentioned by David is from Melissa Mean of Demos, who wrote the Glasgow report. In terms of new ideas to sustain the urban renaissance, our cities are running on empty. The cultural arms race of mainstream regeneration policy has become formulaic and is delivering diminishing returns for people and places. When every city has commissioned a celebrity architect and pedestrianised a cultural quarter, our cities are at risk of all becoming the same. Ouch. The spat aside, what the report is saying is that we need a series of institutional hacks: [...]

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