Definitely take a look. I had the privilege to attend the event on this paper the other month: http://bit.ly/researchonmysocietyimpact
If/as .com environments become increasingly less accessible to researchers, researchers partnering with non-profits in our democracy online space in order to document and share knowledge should be seen as a crucial opportunity. We see E-Democracy.org increasingly playing a research/lesson generating role with wide sharing designed to improve the commercial services growing in our space. - Steve P.S. Also note: https://www.mysociety.org/2014/11/21/hello-academics-of-the-world-we-would-like-to-work-with-you/ And the video of an other evening event on research: http://vimeo.com/112497601 "On Wednesday 19th November 2014, mySociety hosted an Evening of Research to showcase ours and our partners' research into civic technologies." From: Myf Nixon <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:55 AM Subject: [mySociety-community] Research into the impact of mySociety's UK tools To: [email protected] Hi everyone, As part of mySociety's commitment to understanding just what impact our work has, we have recently been commissioning and conducting a number of pieces of research, The latest, put live today, looks at the impact of mySociety's online tools in the UK. It was conducted by Rachel Gibson, Professor Rachel Gibson, Marta Cantijoch, and Silvia Galandini at the University of Manchester. You can read more, and download the full paper, here: https://www.mysociety.org/2014/12/08/research-on-the-impact-of-mysocietys-digital-tools/. Please do let us know your thoughts! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mysociety-community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/group/mysociety-community/. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/d/msgid/mysociety-community/a606d632-6f9d-49b7-be45-03892c2bcbc0%40mysociety.org <https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/d/msgid/mysociety-community/a606d632-6f9d-49b7-be45-03892c2bcbc0%40mysociety.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/d/optout. ᐧ ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/3AanDq46qsNtQeVi37X6aC For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
