A disused school was an appropiate venue for 2gether08, a conference sponsored by Channel 4 to bring together digital social entrepreneurs. This was very much a mix of classroom and playground.
Go to their website for lots of video and text about the two-day shindig in Shoreditch. The presentations were varied and high quality but the best sparks came in the little workshops.
A couple of random thoughts that caught my brain:
Why are politicians the only people without a support group?
What is the Online equivalent of a street protest?
How do you listen online?
What’s entrepreneurial about social enterprise when it doesn’t make a profit?
Good to see you again Charlie
“Why are politicians the only people without a support group?”
I did something about this here:
http://nevertrustahippy.blogspot.com/2008/06/relative-penalisation.html