How can communities wrest definitions of the future from the grasp of corporates and governments? By means of a Civil Society Foresight Observatory FUTURES, COMMUNITY, CREATE THE FEEL, EQUIP FOR THE FUTUREpat kane31 May 2021civil society, foresight, national lotteryComment
Come talk to civic transformer Imandeep Kaur at our next Zoom discussion “The Elephant Meets...”, on 4th August THE ELEPHANT, 4TH SECTOR, COMMUNITY, LOCALISM, NEW ECONOMICS, SHAPE THE SYSTEMpat kane25 July 2020civic tech, civil society, birminghamComment
Time to RE-everything: resist, repair, remember, redesign, reframe... Civic Square's "Department of Dreams" meet-up seizes the moment BIG PICTURE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, SHAPE THE SYSTEMpat kane13 June 2020civil societyComment
Alternative Editorial: Find The Energy A/UK EDITORIAL, ACTION, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONpat kane26 January 2020democracy, cosmolocalism, civil society, grassroots Comments
Communities owning land is on the increase in Scotland - but it's Norway we should all be looking towards COMMUNITY, NEW ECONOMICSpat kane10 December 2019scotland, land ownership, civil societyComment
"The 3.5% rule" says this proportion of the population, doing non-violent direct action, generally win their causes. True? ACTION, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kane22 May 2019civil society, direct action, civil disobedience, protestComment
An exploration into the future of civil society in England inspires the same in Scotland FUTURES, COMMUNITY, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kane26 February 2019civil societyComment
Now free to watch: The People's Spring -how civic tech movements affect modern politics DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, A BETTER MEDIA, GLOBALISTS, TECHNOLOGYpat kane21 January 2019social tech, civic tech, civil societyComment
Civil Society Futures' final report: people's desire for power and control must be answered COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISMpat kane23 November 2018civil society
Vermont's Front Porch Forum is brilliantly successful at putting the Net at the service of communities COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, A BETTER MEDIA, 4TH SECTOR, TECHNOLOGYpat kane25 October 2018civic tech, civil society
Are you/we on this map? Here's an attempt to picture what civil society in the UK looks like LOCALISM, COMMUNITY, BIG PICTUREpat kane24 October 2018civil society
The People's Spring - new documentary on how civic tech movements affect modern politics DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONpat kane11 September 2018social tech, civic tech, civil society
The UK Government's new Civil Society Strategy. Big Society updated? Communities genuinely empowered? Let's see COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISMpat kane12 August 2018civil society
Civil Society Futures looks back on a year of thinking about people's power differently DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISMpat kane24 April 2018civil society