Our latest community councillor project is now well underway. It’s called IL-DEM, and we’re blogging about it on our community knowledge website (Community-Knect.net) it focusses on the information behaviours of community councillors in Scotland as they go about their role of sharing information.
Find out more on Prof Hazel Hall’s blog post “Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement: project update #IL-DEM”
This project also give me the chance to revisit an old interest – online “lurkers” (I hate that word, but it’s what people use) and the need to treat them as part of the democratic process. IL-DEM gives us a chance to find out what community councillors think about their lurkers – I’ll be posting more on this subject in due course.
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