Making the Net Work is a joint UK-US initiative led by David Wilcox, Drew Mackie and Terry Grunwald.

Our aim is to develop 'how to' guidance for those aiming to get their organisation or neighbourhood online, or to create community technology or learning access centres.

Our first project was to develop a toolbox, funded initially by the UK Department of Trade and Industry. This has grown through work we are doing for the Department for Education and Employment as part of the DirectSupport consortium.

We have just complete a guide to the use of information and communication technologies in housing. Full text here >

Our work is a mix of funded projects and consultancy. More here on the services that we offer.

Terry Grunwald

Terry is a consultant with 10 years experience in the strategic use of new technologies for organisations and communities. She was director of the first statewide project in the U.S. designed to support nonprofit networking and is author of "Making the Net Work: Online Strategies for Community-Based Organizations" .

Terry@makingthenetwork.org
Tel: 001 919 846 8899

David Wilcox

David worked as a journalist and then as a consultant in community participation and partnership development. For the past five years he has explored how lessons learned from these fields can be applied to the community use of new media. During that time he developed and manages Partnerships Online.

David@makingthenetwork.org
Tel +44 (0) 20 7600 0104

Drew Mackie

Drew has worked with communities throughout the UK for the past 15 years putting together projects for physical and economic development. In some of this work he has used games to test policy or to give communities a glimpse of the possible future. He is working with David and Terry to apply these methods to the development of online communities.

Drew@makingthenetwork.org
Tel +44 (0) 131 445 5930