What are the policy and practice implications of stimulating local online activity? What are the winning arguments for policy makers to support active citizens and community development workers in getting local sites set up and buzzing? And what would practitioners have to do to make stuff happen?

This Networked Neighbourhoods roundtable gives us the chance to hear about the unmatched experience of Steven Clift, who sparked interest in ‘e-democracy’ back in 1994 and has been busy working on the local implications ever since. Steven will be sharing his considerable expertise in community building online.

We will also take the opportunity to share some early findings from the ongoing London's Digital Neighbourhoods study; and in discussion we will try to align this material with the community organising and civic involvement aspects of the Big Society agenda.

The discussion will be chaired by Emer Coleman, London Alliances Project Director at the GLA.
Short presentations from:

• US e-democracy pioneer Steven Clift, founder of e-democracy.org, on a rare visit to London.
• Hugh Flouch / Kevin Harris, Networked Neighbourhoods, reporting on early findings from the London's Digital Neighbourhoods study.