Ladders to the Cloud

“社区2.0”项目对“大社会”和“政府2.0”的修辞提出了批评，指出了每个项目的选择性。威斯敏斯特的“大社会”理念和美国的“政府2.0”概念都包含了一个从网络社会的成功中汲取的词汇，在网络社会中，共享、互惠、社交网络和沟通都是建设性的元素，有助于形成一种新的地方治理范式。Community 2.0项目的实践层面开发了一种极其简单的方法来利用用户生成和基于服务的资源，将它们“接地气”，并提供一个物理门户，让人们既可以阅读关于一个地方的内容，更重要的是，为它做出贡献——一个“记忆杆”，将安装在韦斯特黑尔斯的地理和社会重要位置。杆子是与苏格兰艺术家合作设计和雕刻的，带有QR条形码，这是与杆子位置相关的云材料的门户。人们可以扫描其中一个标签，并访问和贡献历史照片，故事，视频和音频剪辑。其目的是，极点将作为一种社会资源，帮助建立人们与地点之间的联系，以及利用在线资源。该杆子建立在最近的研究基础上，如Moulder等人（2011）开发的“会说话的杆子”项目，该项目通过物理杆子传播不列颠哥伦比亚省一个社区成员的当地叙事。虽然“会说话的杆子”项目很成功，但它是“只读”的，而“云之梯”项目提供了“写作”和“阅读”的关键维度。

The Community 2.0 Project introduced a critique of the rhetoric of the Big Society and Gov 2.0 that identified the selective qualities of each programme. Westminster's ideas of the Big Society and the American concept of Gov 2.0 embrace a vocabulary drawn from the success of network society in which sharing, reciprocity, social networking and communication were all constructive elements that would contribute to a new paradigm of local governance. The practical dimension of the Community 2.0 project developed an extremely simple approach to capitalise on user-generated and service based resources by bringing them 'down to earth' and providing a physical portal that allowed people to both read content about a place and more importantly, contribute to it - a 'memory pole' that is to be installed at a geographically and socially important location in Wester Hailes. The pole, designed and carved in collaboration with Scottish artists features QR barcodes that are gateways to cloud based material relevant to the location of the pole. People can scan one of the labeled tags and access and contribute to historical photographs, stories, video and audio clips. The intention is that pole will act as a social resource to help build connections between the people and the place, as well as drawing upon online resources. The pole builds on recent research such as the Talking Poles project developed by Moulder et al (2011) that transmitted local narratives by members of a community in British Columbia from a physical pole. Whilst the Talking Poles project was successful is was 'read-only' and the Ladders to the Cloud project offers the critical dimension of 'writing' as well as 'reading'.