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Archive for June, 2008

New North East Conects Storyboard Application

Posted by Gez Smith on Jun 23 2008 | Delib news and events, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples

We've just put together an interesting little package for North East Connects, aimed at informing elected members about what e-Demcracy can do for them, and encouraging them to take up some or all of the benefits it can offer. When we got the brief, it soon became apparent that the key objective in this project was presenting information in a clear, usable and engaging manner. So, we decided to dispense with… read more

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The demise of ICELE

Posted by Gez Smith on Jun 20 2008 | Democracy and government

Some of you will have been following this on other blogs anyway, and there are good conversations on them to join in with about all of this if you want, but would be foolish to ignore the news that the government, after a little delay, has finally pulled the plug on the International Centre of Excellence for Local e-Democracy. A shame in a way, as there is clearly a role for… read more

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What would you do to get Facebookers interested in the Euro elections?

Posted by Ben on Jun 04 2008 | Conversations, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

One of our contacts at the European Parliament has set up a Facebook group entitled 'I'm going to vote in the Euro elections in 2009' and is looking for interesting and exciting things to do with it to take its membership beyond the current (very respectable) 260-odd and counting. He's keen to stress that this is a personal endeavour, not an official European Parliament initiative, but… read more

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