Andy Turner's xhtml2.0 Who Runs Leeds Project 2006-04-27 Meeting Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Who Really Runs Leeds?
- Andy Turner's Blog entry on this meeting
- Paul Chatterton and Action Research in Collaboration
- Starting point for addrssing issues to do with our city Leeds
- Pace of change in Leeds is rapid
  - Who/what is driving this?
  - What are the benefits and who are they for?
    - The many or the few?
- How do we improve the representational and political situation?
- How did the situation arise whereby many of the shops in Leeds are the same companies as those in other cities?
  - What happens to the local operators?
- How can we map and document power?
- Stuart is going to take notes
- Had a debate about recording a voice transcript. This is being done...
- What do we want to find out?
- Who owns Leeds?
- Bradford Council Jamie is very interested in government...
  - Chatham house rules!
  - We live in a very central government organised society in the UK. The powers of local councils may change. Debate is to be openned after the local council elections by a central government white paper.
  - http://www.cfoi.org.uk/opengov.html
  - http://www.direct.gov.uk/
- Leeds Vision
- Leeds Initiative
  - Consultation of a Vision for Leeds
- Information Flows
  - Think Tanks
  - Who sets them up?
- What happened to Leeds Resource Centres?
  - Let's have Virtual Resource Centres
  - John Douglas Leeds Met
- Brian Jackson
  - �2 to join Leeds Coop
  - Utilities
  - Council Rates
  - Building Societies
  - Co-operative Society
  - Democracy
  - Councillers lost in the system... System failure?
- Privatisation of social services is the next big money spinner...
- Dangers of charities running social services...
- Local elections are next week... Where are the campaigners? Is the situation in Italy more democratic? Is there more proportional representation. Why are the people so much more empassioned by politics?
- Where do we go in the next 50 years? Is crisis looming?
- magic-sandwich.co.uk
  - Kev Stone RSS talk
    - We're playing with the big boys...
- Bought a copy of the 1897 Leeds Coop Map from Brian Jackson with a verbal agreement that I was free to do with it what I want including a free reign for copying and further dissemination...
- Resource Centres
  - Virtual Resource Centre
  - Community Centre
  - Power Enquirey Report
  - Set up of Democracy Hubs
- Sabbotage and corruption are rife!
- We've lost the dictaphone... It may never have worked...
- CNet Bradford have funds for addressing Who runs Bradford and involving people and students in research about what is wanted...
- Rachael Unsworth going to develop content on the Leeds Initiative
- I mentioned that for web content there is a need to follow standards especially metadata.
- Quick wins would be good, but are we embarking on a 50 year project?
- Do we want to be practical or academic?
  - What is action research?

Andy Turner's Who Runs Leeds Project 2006-04-27 Meeting Page

Who Really Runs Leeds?