…please make sure you pay your rent, so in your home you’ll stay”So went the lovely message of christmas cheer recently from a Housing Association in Bristol to 250 homes in the area as reported here. They’ve since issued an apology, but it just goes to show, you can spend as much or as little as you want on a project, but whatever the intention, unless you spend time getting… read more
We’re just in the process of wrapping up the exciting online dialogue project that we’ve been working on with the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) in the USA, www.thenationaldialogue.org.
This has been a great project for many reasons, not least the incredible professionalism and ability of our stateside clients, but I particularly liked the way they described the project:
In late October, just before a… read more
I had the joy of being in Washington for election night - so got to experience the giant Obama love-in that spontaneously gathered outside the Whitehouse after the California results came through. The Whitehouse celebrations were a kinda mix between a Take That concert - crowds of adoring fans screaming uncontrollably - and a football match - with choruses of chants.
The chants and screams seemed largely dictated by the presence… read more
Yesterday we launched the “vote phase” of the Department of Health’s Care and Support debate - aimed at getting the general public to have their say on the issue by voting on various key issues.
We’re excited about this new phase as it provides a really simple way for people to take part in the online debate, and also provides a way for users to see what other people… read more
A quick note to all those heading to the bright lights of London, Tuesday, 11th November to the Headstar E-Democracy Conference 08, that a full Delib contingent will be present, and happy to discuss all things e-consultation and online opinion research.
In addition we are running a workshop entitled “Open source in e-Democracy - How good can it be if it’s
This is just a quick post to welcome back some Councils who have renewed their Budget Simulator licenses in the last few weeks.
A tip of the hat to Oldham, Maidstone, Slough, and Suffolk Coastal, who have once again recognised the importance of online outreach and engagement on budgetary issues. Not only does the Budget Simulator use an engaging format for making budget allocation more accessible, but it educates… read more
Can’t let this morning pass without a quick blog really. Lots has been said already about the role of the internet in the US election over the last year or two, and being politically neutral it’s not really our bag to get involved in campaigning related issues here at Delib.
But this article was interesting in the Guardian yesterday, a claim that this election was the ‘Twitter Election’, with… read more
After finally getting an errant fax machine to work Delib have become the newest member of PEP-NET!
PEP-NET offer an online forum for European-wide e-democracy stakeholders to share ideas, disseminate best practice, and generally learn more about all the different e-participation projects and research that is going on.
Its all very well me describing it, but they do a much better job, so check out http://pep-net.eu/wordpress/
Delib look forward working with… read more
As those who keep up with the Team Rubber blog know, we have just launched a very shiny Ideas Forest and Blog for DIUS at http://ideas.iagreview.org.uk/
This marks an exciting step forward for our Ideas Tree platform, by creating a forest of subjects to add ideas to, tied in with a blog to really facilitate deeper discussion of those ideas.
Personally I think its a thing… read more
Thanks to Ed Mitchell for pointing this one out to us, an interesting event that basically works on a Participatory Budgeting model, but as more of a fun evening of games and debates.
The idea is that the audience for the event get their entrance money for it pooled together, then get to vote on how it’s spent. Unlike PB though, they also get to vote on pretty much… read more