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Open Government, Open Business, Open dialogue: a UK view of social media and government

This is a copy of a piece I’ve written for the December 2011 issue of Service Contractor [PDF page 14], the magazine of Professional Services Council in the United States. All links are at the end of the article.
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On May 16, 2011, Jeremy Hunt, U.K. secretary of state for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, asked
citizens and those who work in fixed or mobile communications, television, radio, online publishing, video games, and other digital and creative content industries for responses to an open letter reviewing communications in the digital age. The open letter contained a series of questions aimed at gathering business and citizen ideas “to help frame the Government’s initial approach to deregulation and maximize the communications industry’s contribution to economic growth.”
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Is the games industry institutionally sexist?

A bold question I know, but please bear with me.

This started as an update to this post but I realised that once I had written over eleven paragraphs it probably needed its own URL. Right, deep breath, here goes…

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I’d like you all to read ‘In which I don’t try to write like a man’ by Margaret Robertson. Margaret is both a leading games writer and development director of Hide & Seek. It is her response to Mark Sorrell’s blog post ‘Dear Men, Please Listen. Love, Man‘ and also a discussion thread about his article on Reddit.
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In response to: ‘Dear Men, Please Listen. Love, Man’

Once again it started with a Tweet from the loveable Bill Thompson, writing:

Reckon @Doctoe will find @Sorrell piece of interest: Dear Men, please listen. Love,Man http://www.bewareofthesorrell.com/2011/12/dear-men-please-listen-love-man.html

To explain, @doctoe (Jo Twist) is leaving Channel 4 in January to become CEO of UKIE, the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment. @sorrell (Mark Sorrell) is Head of Games at Screenpop.
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