Talking over matters of urban design, city governance and the social web with Mark Charmer, Lorenzo Wood and Joe Simpson at lunch yesterday (as you do), I stumbled on a way of describing what we are seeing around us and what I expect we will se far more of in the coming decade, what I called the move from the privitasation of public space to the re-socialisation of public space.

It’s been a big week in the world of digital government, what with the first Minister for Communications Stephen Carter announcing that he is in the process of drafting a ‘Digital Britain’ action plan as well as the launch of the Digital Inclusion action plan (I’ll be returning to these in a post shortly). So it seemed rather timely to find myself having a coffee and a chat with the Internet tsar Derek Wyatt MP last Thursday.