UKGovcamp is the movement of self-organised unconferences for government types with an interest in how the public sector uses technology.
UKGovcamp 2012 is taking place over two days for the first time, on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st January 2012, at Microsoft’s HQ in Victoria, London.
- Friday 20th January sees the usual GovCamp experience of crowdsourced unconference sessions where delegates talk about the stuff that interests them
- Saturday 21st January is the all new GovCamp Doing Things day, where everyone attending can dream come some cool stuff to do, whether it’s collaborating on the best social media strategy EVER, running some training sessions on creating video, or build some useful app or other with some data
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This site is a mini social network, so you can create a profile, find some friends, form some groups and have some discussions. Find out more about the UKGovcamp movement on the About page, or check out what events have happened so far on The Camps page. Join up (it’s free!) to be the first to hear about arrangements for the event, including when tickets are released.
What’s UKGovcamp?
UKGovcamp is about people giving up their time to talk, listen and think about how digital is changing the way government works in the UK.
Those conversations start online long before the event, and continue long afterwards, stimulating new ideas, projects and get-togethers, including via the monthly TeaCamp London and BrewCamp Birmingham meetups.
UKGovcamp is an unconference, or a free-to-attend conference without a predefined agenda, where the sessions are proposed and agreed at the start of the day. They’re posted as a big grid on the wall for the participants to choose from, and there’s plenty of time for the informal hallway chats which, let’s face it, are the best bit of any conference.
It’s run to the rules of ‘open space’ events, where the Law of Two Feet applies: people move freely between sessions which interest them, tweeting, blogging, snapping and filming as they go. What emerges is always a high-energy, dynamic event which leaves people buzzing with new ideas and connections for weeks afterwards.
Set up by volunteers, the first UKGovcamp took place in January 2008, and there have been three more since, each one bigger and livelier than the last.
The 2012 event will be the biggest yet, with around 250 participants over two days.
