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Happy Bristol Day!

Posted by Andy on Oct 26 2007 | Delib news and events

I am working today (who takes their own advice?), but most of our staff have the day off for our 'not-quite-statutory', self-declared unofficial bank-holiday, Bristol Day. Britain has not enough official holidays in our view. We can't change that across the country (Gordon Brown could, if he chose to), but we can give Team Rubber people (including Delib people) one extra 'statutory' holiday. So we did, and our staff looked frankly… read more

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Cameron gets it

Posted by Ben on Oct 25 2007 | Democracy and government

It's nice to see that Britain's political leaders are starting to get the internet, and its wider impact on society.  David Cameron seems particularly switched onto the power of the net, as was highlighted by his speech at Google's zeitgeist, with talk of using the net to help devolve more power to the people. Of course it's easy to talk this way when you're in opposition, however at least… read more

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Political Base

Posted by Ben on Oct 25 2007 | Democracy and government

This looks pretty interesting: http://www.politicalbase.com/. They've got lots of the e-democracy bases covered -- accountability, transparency, personlisation, conversation -- with their features, all of which have been served up with a specific proposition ('see where contributions have come from', 'compare candidates on issues' etc) and in a specific context (the US presidential elections). It'll be telling to see how, and how much, these features get used, and fascinating to… read more

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Threat to e-Democracy in Italy

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 24 2007 | Democracy and government

Not much more to say on this that isn't said in the original source post, other than it's real worry if true and it passes. Let's hope the idea doesn't catch on over here. (note some comments on that blog contain rather frank language about the proposals)…

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