Dave+Newman

=Dave Newman= **Home page**: http://www.e-consultation.org/
 * Your Country : United Kingdom**
 * Affiliation:**
 * Contact:** drdrnewman@gmail.com

I have been working on Appropriate Technology since 1974, Community Informatics since 1993 and e-democracy since 1997. I worked in Moçambique and Kenya, then decided to go somewhere safer: so I went to Belfast. I worked at Queen's University Belfast until 2010. Now I am looking for interesting things to do.

Some of the things I did that might be of interest to some of you were:
 * 1) Testing and developing energy-efficient stoves, including the Kenya Ceramic Jiko.
 * 2) Finding out how the first community and voluntary groups in Northern Ireland started to use the Internet (Beyond Access and Awareness).
 * 3) Measuring critical thinking in face-to-face and on-line discussions.
 * 4) Running a 2-year research project into e-consultation across the island of Ireland.
 * 5) Taking part in a project to get 80 groups of people, in 4 countries, who had grown up with the Internet, to discuss how it should be governed and pass on their ideas to policy-makers (HUWY).

Right now I am trying to get people together to put user needs at the heart of the Digital Agenda for Europe.