Monthly Archives: November 2009

‘Spooks’ and the fear of online participation

Anyone else catch this (the episode and the drift)?  I watched the latest episode of Spooks over the weekend (and enjoyed it, so what?) and, part-way through, realised that it was actually a dramatisation of what’s going on in the … Continue reading

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Give us your ideas for panelists @ Delib’s next debate

Following the great success of our last debate event back in July, we’re holding a new debate in Parliament in January (18th)  – kindly hosted by Danny Alexander MP. The title of the debate is “Election 2010 will be decided … Continue reading

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Me and Shel Israel

So, there I was chatting away to a nice lady (Orla) next to the toilets of the the Lewis Media Centre (there is a relevance)  explaining (rather loudly) why I was so excited to hear Shel Isreal talk when – … Continue reading

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EU Considers Fuel Saving Road Trains

I have to say the many hours I’ve sometimes spent on the motorway, this idea has crossed my mind.  I’ll look forward to the trials in the UK where I can hopefully express my views and get involved.

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HMRC Charter launch

Last night was the official launch of HMRC’s Charter – which we ran the online consultation process for earlier in the year.   It was really great to catch up with the Charter team to (Fiona and Andy) and also … Continue reading

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“Open source software more secure than commercial code” according to top US CIO

Sadly I missed the Government Open Source conference in DC on Thursday, however I picked up this interesting tidbit from NextGov under the headline: “Open source software more secure than commercial code”. Ask any (most) big proprietary software companies and … Continue reading

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Final days in DC + Open Gov the movie

So we’re finally back in the UK ; – ( We had an amazing week in Washington with our hosts – the guys from NAPA. The last few days were pretty action packed – with a whirlwind tour of the … Continue reading

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Washington Day 1: thoughts (part 2) on White House Citizen Participation

Part 2: projects and pragmatism So in the previous exciting installment, I tried to briefly summarise how the current US administration has taken hold of the principle of participation.  The next part of our conversation was about the work of … Continue reading

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US: An overview of the National Dialogue on Health, IT and Privacy

Take a look at our video about the National Dialogue we ran on Health, IT and Privacy, which asks the question “How should we expand the use of information technology and protect personal privacy to improve health care?”. On the … Continue reading

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Washington day 2: security, burgers and Open Gov beers

So following Ben’s more considered analysis of the US participation scene from yesterday, I’m gonna give you a much thinner (but equally exciting) run down of our adventures in DC today: 7 ro 9: fight with the hotel WIFI.  WIFI … Continue reading

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