DIGITAL CIVICS

Digital technologies and citizen-driven design has the potential to transform services and ways of working to meet future local needs of public service delivery and community development. Digital Civics is a RCUK funded research initiative to reimagine digital local government and communities. Since 2014, we have been examining the design and application of digital technologies in different areas of service provision: social care, community health, public health, education and local democracy. The initiative is conducted in close partnership with our local authorities (Gateshead, Newcastle and Northumberland), many local and international third sector partners and businesses, and the communities of the North East of England. Through a process of place-based innovation we design, develop and evaluate local solutions, along with understanding their relevance to other contexts and scales... Digital Civics is led by Open Lab, Newcastle University's world-leading cross-disciplinary..

Primary location: Newcastle Upon Tyne United Kingdom