The meeting at BERR yesterday, hosted by CLG was a useful one, with lots of names being put to faces and some initial collaborative thoughts and ideas being generated.

It became clear that there are as many as four organisations planning to bid for the digital mentor fund, those being UK online centres & Citizens Online, Liverpool John Moores University, Workers Educational Association and possibly the Media Trust.

UK online centres & Citizens Online have begun their online efforts to coordinate a group of collaborators over at http://voice-box.org.uk/ which will act for their bid a little like this site does for the idea of digital mentors generally.

Digitalmentor.org remains bid neutral, and any of the other organisations planning to make a bid are welcome to come here and share their views on how things should be progressed. In fact, I will be emailing them later to encourage it!

I think it is important to point out that I personally am involved in the UK online centres & Citizens Online bid, insofar as that I have been taken on to do the web stuff for Voicebox. I have built the Voicebox site and will be managing the community around it. I am being paid for this work.

I don’t personally see this as incompatible with managing this site too - though if others feel differently I will of course take a second look at it. I don’t want this space to be contaminated in anyway with accusations of conflicts of interest.

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