• Summary of Networked City, The Way Ahead, Our way Ahead 2017-18
• Latest update April 2018

Posts about Networked City and Connecting Londoners, latest at the top

• Great job opportunity using digital and mapping to build grass-roots networks
• Networked City in practice: maps, apps, games and a model for Commons
• How a people-power grid could support civil society and rebuild our communities
• Why Government and funders might give more support to community technology, social infrastructure and connecting citizens
• Network maps need conversations to be useful, and conversations benefit from mapping … the dynamics of civic operating systems
• Stuff happens: could company operating systems for uncertain futures provide insights into what’s needed for civil society?
• How mapping visionaries for responsible tech could help develop a people-centred approach to Smarter London
• We need civic operating systems to manage the social fabric for healthy communities – plus a social app store of tools
• Report on #FutureCommunities highlights building connections and social infrastructure
• Residents share ideas on how they can contribute to Inclusive Growth in Barking
• How maps and network building can contribute to Barking’s vision of inclusive growth
• How to make London a more Sharing City – find out who’s sharing already and fill the gaps
• Deputy Mayor opens discussion on social isolation and loneliness in London. The positive or negative role of tech deserves attention
• Smarter London Together starts on the road to people-first design. Can it also lead to strong civil society?
• Hub for London appoints CEO
• New Hub for London role to develop civil society networks and civic tech
• Responses to Smart London proposals argue for people first, technology second
• Free London events on Smart and Networked Cities
• The Hub for London to support civil society now recruiting first chief executive #TheWayAhead
• Over 60s in Camden confront digital exclusion in their community hub - with help from a local, global business
• Older people need support from the @MayorofLondon to ensure #digitalinclusion in #SmartLondon
• Is digital technology a force for good or harm in our relationships? London lecture explores #socialisolation
• A fresh look at #digitalinclusion and older people from @pailondon. Tech changes - but do the challenges remain the same?
• Give more recognition to community needs and Londoners' voices in LondonPlan, LondonFunders urge MayorofLondon
• Lots of plans affecting London civil society - now we need someone to join them up for TheWayAhead and MayorofLondon
• Why Smart City London should be a #NetworkedCity: participatory, sharing, inclusive and accessible
• Our first year exploring how to make London a more Networked City with #ourwayahead
• Updating ideas on Hub for London: might @nesta_uk and @theRSAorg help develop a new London Collaborative?
• Why we need a Community of Practice for networking London civil society
• New Hub for London gets £350,000 to support civil society - hopefully including grassroots groups
• Join us in a free workshop to explore @OurWayAhead for London communities
• How we can apply @thersaorg vision of Convening and Change from @RSAMatthew to London’s civil society
• City Hall hailed as potential champion for London grassroots action during consultation on #GLAcivilsocietystrategy. Now - how?
• Pitching Connecting Londoners and co-design of civil society communications to an #RSAideas session
• Event with Deputy Mayor @rydermc and #reclaimourspaces opens door to co-designing community engagement … but with whom?
• Explaining to London's Deputy Mayor @rydermc how mapping can help connect Londoners and #reclaimourspaces
• Join us to discuss how Londoners can connect and influence development of the city
• Joining up the dots to show #OurWayAhead
• Why #OurWayAhead will be #GoodforLDN civil society
• Looking for ideas at @LDNCommMedia summit on how community media can help in Connecting Londoners. Here's our headlines.
• How to move TheWayAhead into the networked age by Connecting Londoners
• City Hall is commissioning work to develop a London civil society strategy for TheWayAhead. Spread the word.
• How TheWayAhead for @LondonFunders is becoming OurWayAhead for Londoners
• Voices from the Tower may change tone of TheWayAhead for civil society, as well as much else
• Another hope for TheWayAhead at today's event - a communication programme to inform and engage Londoners
• Here's hoping TheWayAhead plans for a London resource hub become more networky
• Working groups publish reports on TheWayAhead for London’s Civil Society
• RSA Networked Cities aim to make tech serve citizens - let's co-design with people and communities #RSACities
• Exploring how we can contribute to @thersaorg Networked City - adding the citizen and community dimension RSACities
• Why digital social innovation requires both bottom-up and top-down - more lessons from #DSInext @Nesta_uk
• Discovering how our work on Connecting Londoners can benefit from @thersaorg research into communities #RSACities
• Now @thersaorg defines Networked City as Smart City plus Sharing City - with a launch event this month #RSACities
• Conference on #TheWayAhead will reveal funders' ideas for supporting London civil society
• Connecting Londoners organisation needed for civil society and action for social good: response to #TheWayAhead @lvscnews
• How to support community development and give London citizens a voice: build networks, use social tech #netwcity
• Moving London from digital divide to digital connect - generating Networked City ideas for the Deputy Mayor @rydermc #netwcity
• Lessons from digital skills projects - grassroots connections and personal interests matter most
• How network building and tech can support social action and integration in London - #netwcity event with the Deputy Mayor
• Videos from our Networked City event including an interview with Harold Jarche - @hjarche #netwcity
• Follow us with #netwcity and a live stream about social good in a more networked London
• Rethinking civil society - with lessons from rethinking work and @hjarche at free London event
• London as a #networkedcity gains support at first event. Now here's the plan
• Earlier posts about London civil society

Networks and social ecosystems
Mapping and development of networks underpins a lot of our current work on localities as social ecosystems.

Exploring how London can be a more Networked City
A background paper for our launch event on January 10 2017, including a summary of The Way Ahead initiative, models for cooperation and collaboration in the networked age, the development process for our exploration.

Supporting co-production
A note for The Way Ahead group on co-production, covering models for engagement, cooperation and collaboration, and the idea of local ecosystems.

Connecting Citizens
A paper summarising an approach to using digital technology, network thinking and self-organising to address three linked challenges: how people can find opportunities and services, and develop new relationships in their local communities; how to develop civic infrastructure when existing systems are reducing and new approaches are needed; supporting community connectors in their role of making connections and building relationship in local communities, and online

Mapping London networks
Report of the network mapping exercise undertaken by Drew Mackie at the Our Way Ahead event on July 21 2017

Report of a our Hub game simulation.
Workshop at London Metropolitan University with Our Way Ahead

Extending the Hub for London - pdf download
Proposals for the Hub for London Advisory group

Proposals for a Community of Practice - pdf download
How we could develop a Community of Practice to extend the Hub for London

• The Way Ahead official site
• Networked City wiki
• Connecting Londoners blog
• Networked City background
• ConnectingLondoners projects
• The Way Ahead background
• The Way Ahead reference