Monthly Archives: July 2009

Tell Them What You Think beta

Posted on July 31, 2009 by MichaelaD

Tell Them What You Think beta

A massive government-wide consultation finder database! About time!

Its currently in beta so its not all singing and dancing as yet, but what a fantastic premise. We at Delib are no stranger to a consultation finder database but the scale and utility of this site deserves some extra attention.

On a personal note Im a big fan already and was actually directed to it from a… Continue reading →

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Internet and democracy debate – 15 minute edit

Posted on July 28, 2009 by ChrisQ

So, we’ve finally got our 15 minute edit of the Internet and democracy debate we ran earlier in the month. To explain – we weren’t allowed to film in Parliament, but we were allowed to take photos and record sound, … Continue reading →

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How Teenagers Use The Internet

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Gez Smith

Odd one this, Morgan Stanley recently took on a 15 year old intern named Matthew Robson, and asked him to write them a briefing paper on how teenagers use different media. It’s ‘shaken the city’ apparently, a location you would … Continue reading →

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Conservatives Promise More Control Over Aid Spending

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Gez Smith

Odd to have a blog title that sounds like a news headline, but that’s essentially what this story is. The Conservatives have announced that, if elected, they will hand over control of a portion of the government aid budget to … Continue reading →

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Discussing the good and the not so good…

Posted on July 9, 2009 by AdamC

As part of my daily activities with Delib, I’ve been speaking to council employees who are involved in budget consultation at their various establishments. Because of this, I’ve been fortunate enough to quickly gain a good understanding of the differing … Continue reading →

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Who Can Talk Online?

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Gez Smith

This is a straightforward story on the face of it, but raises some questions the more you think about it. A civil servant has been sacked from DCSF for posting a negative comment about Hazel Blears on www.theyworkforyou.com, on a seemingly unknown site, using her work email address – see update below.Straightforward case in a way, posting on the… Continue reading →

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Internet debate round-up

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Ben

So you may have noticed that we were running this debate last night, ‘the internet: the saviour or corruptor of democracy?’, (with the help of the Henry Jackson Society, sponsored by MessageSpace and very graciously hosted in Parliament by Danny … Continue reading →

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Government responds on Open Source

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Gez Smith

This is interesting, a while back I signed a Number 10 e-petition that said;
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ask the Communities Secretary to require that all software produced by councils under the Timely Information to Citizens project be released under an open source licence.
It went on to say in the further information section;
…as citizens we cannot and do not support this substantial sum of public… Continue reading →

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