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Archive for October, 2009

Who Doesn’t Use The Web?

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 28 2009 | Democracy and government, Engagement

A perennial theme of this blog, because it's a perennial theme from some people we meet. So it was interesting to read this article from the Observer about people who have never used the internet.  It's a bit of a planted story for the Race Online 2012, but it's disturbingly novel to hear real accounts from people who haven't used the web before and the barriers that seemed to… read more

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Delib in DC + UK/US Open Gov meetup

Posted by ChrisQ on Oct 28 2009 | Delib news and events

Delib are off to the US of A next week, on a whirlwind tour of Washington and the Open Gov scene. We're keen to make the most of our time in DC, so have a fairly packed schedule, however if anyone's got any ideas of who we should be saying hi to - or what we should be seeing - drop us a note on the blog. One thing we're particularly keen… read more

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Twitter – Data Vs Copy

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 19 2009 | Bad examples, Conversations, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

Before the article, a brief synopsis of it for the tech savvy 

 

"TL:DR? gez @delibconsults wants tweet txt kept simple #web2.0"

 

Now actual words for real people. … read more

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recovery.gov up and running

Posted by Ben on Oct 16 2009 | Democracy and government, Good examples

So the new recovery.gov site is up and running, allowing anyone and everyone to dig into data around the massive Recovery Act.  As ever, by the time I get 'round to blogging anything, the whole rest of the internet has done it already so I'll leave the detailed analysis to others and, as with any internet-government thing these days, if you want all the opinion on this, all… read more

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Chris’ interview with Public Affairs News

Posted by ChrisQ on Oct 14 2009 | Consultation, Democracy and government, Engagement

Yesterday I popped down to the Public Affairs News offices to chat to their editor - Ian Hall.  The nice guy that he is - he offered to do a quick interview with me for their PAN TV section.  [see below].  I'm never massively good at chatting on camera (I'm making a considered effort to get better!) mainly due to my over "errring". Anyway, the main thrust… read more

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Trafigura And The Guardian – Never Forget Who You Are

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 13 2009 | Bad examples, Democracy and government, Engagement, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

IMG_0727 I'm in the London office today, and just took a photo of this postcard on the wall, thinking it would fit with a blog post at some point. Then it suddenly struck me, today's main internet news in this part of the world fits it perfectly.  You can read more about it elsewhere, but in essence, a gagging order was… read more

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Race Online 2012

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 13 2009 | Democracy and government, Engagement, Participation

Interesting story today from the government's Digital Inclusion Task Force, which is looking to get everyone in the UK online by 2012. The primary driver for this seems to be economic, predicting that doing so would save the government £1bn annually.

 

All well and good… read more

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Friday fun

Posted by Ben on Oct 09 2009 | Delib news and events

Far too much fun to be had here – thoroughly irresponsible thing to send 'round first thing in the morning. Speechbreaker: put your words into Brown and Cameron's mouths... http://www.speechbreaker.co.uk/ (Warning: contains strong language that may not be safe for work)

Speechbreaker

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Ernest Marples And Free Data

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 06 2009 | Advice, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples, Participation

One thing government has got quite good at, especially over the last 10 years or so, is collecting data. Measurements of performance, incidents, activity, behaviour, travel, it's all getting logged on a daily basis. Whilst all this data has a primary purpose for the people that collect it, there are of course other uses for it beyond this sphere. … read more

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GSA – Engaging Citizens in Government

Posted by MichaelaD on Oct 05 2009 | Delib news and events

Another interesting paper which caught my eye this month. This time its the GSA in the US who have put together an international array of best practice and thought pieces on different projects going on around citizen engagement in government. http://www.usaservices.gov/pdf_docs/EngagingCitizensII.pdf My particular faves are the "National Dialogues Build Communites" and " Brazil and Argentina: From Partcipatory Budgeting to e-Partcipatory Budgeting" articles. Anyone else have any other… read more

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