"Social networking tools and Web 2.0 are this year's talking points. But the chatter hides their growing history as means to contact, link and engage a broad range of friends, strangers, existing and emergent groups in forms of work and play that build (or challenge) civil society. Their effect has been seen in charity fundraising, community decision-making and political mobilisation." This was a possible starting point given to all speakers, as this workshop will address issues of social organisation, online networking, consultation processes, web 2.0 phenomenon, open participation, and the way new tools and technologies are enabling us all into achieving change.

This event is organized by PRaDSA. PRaDSA stands for "Practical Design for Social Action". The PRaDSA project's goal is to develop and extend the capability of social action organisations to creatively design new practices by appropriating and adapting ICTs. Other goals are: to develop a new understanding of designing in social action settings, grounded in detailed contextual studies of design in practice, and to create a collection of practical resources to support the work of practitioners (and others) including workshop materials and easy-to-use (open-source) on-line community communications systems.

PRaDSA is a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of its Designing for the 21st Century programme.

THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD at the spacestudios.org.uk, London, United Kingdom, on the 11th and 12th of March, 2008.

If you would like to know more about this event, how to attend, and the PRaDSA project, please see:
http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org.