exploring the potential of the internet and web for promoting social inclusion and widening participation in economic development and the management of public service provision
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The Odyssey Group is a network of academics who are, in various ways, seeking to explore the emerging social potential of new modes of electronically-mediated communication, particularly in respect of alternative forms of organising and managing and the promotion of greater social inclusion. Members of the group collaborate to
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2008 Activities: archive of
activities Members of the Odyssey Group participated in a series of events during 2008. These took place in Scotland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
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Previous Events |
accessibility/tourism/development For 2007 the Group explored the relationship between the accessibility of locations and tourism and other forms of economic activity in both developed and developing economies and regions. The event was a combined virtual and physical meeting hosted by
the Centre for Innovation Knowledge and Development Open University, UK
and supported by Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University,
Netherlands and the College of Tourism, Rikkyo University Tokyo, Japan
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Odyssey 2006: New York, Lancaster, Ljubljana The Odyssey Group participated in a series of events during
2006. For details of these activities CLICK HERE. |
Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity. The Odyssey Group provided a session in the stream Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity: Changing Frontiers of Daily Routine at "Frontiers of Sociology", the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, held in Stockholm on July 5-9, 2005. |
Migration, Identity and New Information Technology workshop held at University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, 23rd-27th August 2004, in collaboration with Management Research Centre, London Metropolitan University hosted by Professor Julian Hine, Translink Chair of Transport, University of Ulster, Jordanstown This workshop examined the implications of new information and communications technologies for the social and economic dynamics of identity and community, in the context of migration and diaspora. |
Online Symposium, Ageing in the
Community held in conjunction with the 18th UK-Japan High Technology Industry Forum, hosted by Moor Park Community Centre in collaboration with:
The UK-Japan High Technology Forum 2003 had a particular focus on ageing and the elderly. The choice of Newcastle was influenced by the world class research into aging carried out in the city and region. This site hosted activities linking the technical advances and innovations which were the subject of the forum with the issue of delivery to and monitoring by local government, health providers and communities. Odyssey Group members have been working with Moor Park, and NEAT, on user-based monitoring of public transport provision, since 2001. |
Global
Earth Watch and Local Housekeeping |
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Technology and environment: reflections on IT working practices in Africa, 21st November 2001, at the Management Research Centre, University of North London |
Elizabeth Abena Prempeh, Heyward Reserve Library |
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Information Access for Africa, workshop 2001, held at Centre for Social Policy Studies, University
of Ghana, Legon |
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e-collectivism - a reformation: Odyssey Group workshop, held at Ely, Cambridgeshire, August 2000 | ||||
Cyberontology workshop, held at The Business School, University of North London, October 1999 |
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Relational Skill and
Electronic Communication: Odyssey Group workshop held at Ithaca, New York, August 1999 |
Other activities |
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Moor Park Explore Club: Odyssey Group members participated in a community-led project to monitor public transport provision in North Tyneside |
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Members of the Odyssey Group are active participants in the ESRC-funded Mobile Network Seminar Series (see report by participants from Moor Park Explore Club of seminar held 1st February 2002, at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge) |
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Odyssey Group members Len Holmes and Stephen Little convened the stream on 'Distributed technology, distributed leadership, distributed identity' at APROS 2001 colloquium, Baptist University, Hong Kong |
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'Electronic Ontologies' stream at APROS, Sydney, Dec 2000 Odyssey Group members Len Holmes, Stephen Little and Margaret
Grieco convened this stream at APROS 2000. Papers from the stream were
subsequently revised and are now published in 'Organising in the Information
Age' (ed Len Holmes, Dian Marie Hosking and Margaret Grieco), published by
Ashgate Press, 2002
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The Odyssey Group developed from work for, and experience of running, the UK 'harbour' for Global Learn Day II, October 1998 | ||||
Participants: The Odyssey Group has a 'core' group of participants who collaborate on events and publications. In addition, we invite others 'virtual voyagers' to join in key events online. Names of participant present at each event and of virtual voyagers are shown on the webpages for those events. The convenors for the Odyssey Group are |
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Sharing Our Practice
A key aim of the work of the Odyssey Group is to assist other groups to develop their own websites and use of the internet technology. We therefore try to share what we have learnt and are learning from our own experience. We do this by one-to-one coaching at workshops, and also through an online toolkit. |
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Publications by Odyssey Group members Amongst the outputs of the work of the Odyssey Group are a number of publications and conference papers on topics explored by the Group. Published works include:
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Websites managed by Odyssey Group members |
Other Links |
Site managed by:
Leonard Holmes, Reader in Management |
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Stephen Little Open University Business School |
last updated: 1st December 2009