-- from the BBC''s description of the Action Network goal (see link below)"
Address: 4th Floor D6, BBC Broadcasting Centre
Location: London, UK, W12 7TP
Email: martin.vogel@bbc.co.uk
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/whatisactionnetwork
Work: +44 20 8008 5381
Cell: +44 7711 171998
The BBC runs Action Network as an open forum for people to influence issues they care about. Most of the content is written by the public and reflects their views. Content provided by the BBC is clearly marked. A two-page MSWord document describing the BBC''s plans for Action Network is available HERE.
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THE INFORMATION BELOW IS FROM:
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/html/faculty_skoll_forum_2005_bios_MartinVogel.asp
Martin Vogel runs BBC iCan, an innovative website which helps people participate in their communities. iCan has been running for 18 months, and will be relaunched as BBC Take Action. Martin joined the BBC in 1989 as a journalist and worked for a number of years in the BBC''s radio and television newsrooms and covering Parliament. He spent some time as an adviser to the Chief Executive of BBC News then as business development manager, developing BBC News services for new technologies such as broadband internet and mobile phones. He has also worked as a reporter in commercial radio, with Radio Clyde in Glasgow , as a community worker in south-east London and as an MP''s research assistant at Westminster . He went to Durham University , where he studied Sociology, and completed an MBA at the London Business School.
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