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- Latest post made by Ben Whitnall at Apr 18 11:44 UTC
Hi, A new tool from Delib that was commissioned by Defra to get people to think about climate change. http://www.myabodo.com/ Set up your house and see how changes you make interact with climate change. Then join a community... Gez (or any other Delib folk)- are you still on this list -can you say something more about Myabodo? Myabodo is one of the tools used in North East Derbyshire council's new YourSpace -an interactive magazine encouraging people to send in their own films. (A bit like Ask Bristol?) as part of a way to encourage people to become involved with their local council/community. http://www.neddc-yourspace.org.uk/ http://www.neddc-yourspace.org.uk/page/about The council have been contacting community groups to encourage (help?) them to create content. Is anyone involved in this project on the list -it would be great to hear more about it... This is also interesting in the light of Paula Canning's thread "Could a British teacher ever do this?" http://groups.dowire.org/groups/ukie/messages/topic/5E2a92tuPhUZPHLOhRTp mv And of course thanks to HeadStar -this info comes from E-Government Bulletin http://www.headstar.com/site/scripts/register.php -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith International Teledemocracy Centre Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Telephone: +44 (0) 131 455 2392 Fax: +44 (0) 131 455 2282 Email:http://itc.napier.ac.uk This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373
Hi Ella (and all), Don't panic! You'll be pleased to know we Delib folk are still on this list... I can indeed say a bit more about My Abodo: we developed the game last year as part of Defra's Climate Challenge Fund initiative. We ran the game campaign over several months last year -- it's winding down now, though we'll likely keep it online for a while yet. To date, we've had 127,780 total views of the main game from 97,205 unique visitors coming from 1,960 referrers; there have been 29,930 personalised abodos made. We think that's pretty good going (we hope people might, at some point, start putting higher expectations on themselves in terms of reach in this sort of field -- thinking in terms of 10s or 100s of thousands, rather than just 10s or 100s). However, there were two aspects in particular we were really pleased with: firstly, the sharing element of the game/toy. We built My Abodo with the intention of people customising their abodo as a kind of self-expression exercise and then sharing their abodo with their friends or audience. To that end, when you make an abodo, you're given a bit of code to allow you to embed a mini-abodo widget in your site or blog (see our example at http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/myabodo-takes-off). As people started doing this, My Abodo was disseminated throughout the extended network of our original audience and slowly but surely this actually became the principal way of experiencing the game -- to date, we've had 143,735 unique views of embedded widgets and for the latter half of the campaign I think the widgets have overtaken the central site in terms of daily views. We think this is a good model! Secondly, we've been pleased with the level and nature of comments that people have submitted with their abodos; the number of facetious or malicious comments has been relatively low and the number, and nature, of comments that show people have really engaged with the game has been particularly encouraging. People had so many intelligent critiques, suggestions, opinions and alternatives on the topic that it's just a shame it wasn't feasible for the project to get the audience directly conversing and debating with one another. Hope that's helpful; if people want to make use of My Abodo, they can link to the game at http://www.myabodo.com/ or, even better, go and make their own abodo and widgetise it. Thanks, Ben Ben Whitnall | e-Democracy Consultant | Delib http://www.delib.co.uk Bristol & London | UK | 0845 638 1848 | +44 117 316 9508 Catch the latest e-democracy news and comment: http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog Delib Ltd. is a company registered in England at Ropemaker Court, 11 Lower Park Row, Bristol, BS1 5BN. Company number: 5158056.
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