Demotix at Guardian Public Services Summit

Submitted by Turi Munthe on Wed, 10/02/2010 - 19:33

We were very flattered to be invited to talk at the Guardian Public Services Summit last week.

I was talking on the "Innovation and the Media" panel, talking with the extraordinary Richard Allan, Facebook's European Director of Policy, and former MP for Sheffield Hallam.

He talked about how the idea of public/private space changes with online identities, I tried to explain that the 'virtual world' was just as real as the 'real world'.

We weren't booed. And then the great man of UK political journalism, Michael White, talked to us after dinner. Of Mandela, he said "like a Duke before lunch", he defeated his opponents from prison, and then forgave them.

Pictures of Richard Allan, David Brindle (in the middle - the Guardian's Public Services editor), and me, copyright of James Young.

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It's good to see Demotix at

Submitted by Lita Davidson on Mon, 15/02/2010 - 06:40.

It's good to see Demotix at these forums, and I like Turi's comment on how the virtural world is indeed a "real world". It will be interesting to see how Demotix evolves over the next decade and how it will challenge and change mainstream media, which will in turn affect politics, etc. Were people being booed?