It’s a publication double whammy for us this week, which is pleasing.

First of all, our contribution to the Hansard Society’s ‘Parliament for the Future’ project has been published in their final report on phase 1 of the project. We were invited to submit an idea or ideas for what parliament could be doing online in the future, and we came up with a number… read more

There was no newsletter sent out for August as we figured everyone would be on holiday. This meant a load of blog entries piled up, making the latest edition a bit of a scrollathon.

If you enjoyed that bumper dose of e-democracy goodness and would like to get the e-newsletter delivered to your inbox every month, you can sign up for free right now - just type… read more

It’s comforting to know that the Internet has us second in this list of industry giants!

I did enjoy finding this blog article earlier which puts us in such lofty company: http://mashable.com/2007/08/09/yahoo-bix-green-icon/.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course — although I’d like to think we’ve managed to stave off the ‘evil’ tag that haunts our two competitors.

We’ve said it before, but online consultation and engagement isn’t just taking offline work and replicating it online. Asking for someone to write you a letter, or print out and post back a pdf document doesn’t mean you’re doing online consultation.

So this site is odd. It’s taken the notion of a letter or large free text response and put it online, but just in the shape of… read more

Well, the dust is settling on the e-voting pilots carried out last May, and it sadly seems that things once again haven’t run as well as they might have done. The Electoral Commission’s evaluations of the pilots shows that many were delivered successfully overall, but contained a number of problems, both in theory and in practice.

More to the point, their ultimate recommendation to government is “to end… read more