Monthly Archives: January 2010

We’re making Opinion Suite join up with Linked Data (through RDFa)

With so much chat and buzz at the moment (and rightly so) about Tim Berners-Lee et al’s data.gov.uk, I thought it’d be timely to say a bit about how we’ll be doing our bit towards publishing online consultation information as … Continue reading

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Politics And Twitter

Interesting report out from Tweetminster the other day about the amount of politicians and political parties using Twitter at the moment, which hopefully adds a bit of context to the whole ‘This will be an internet’ election meme around at … Continue reading

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Delib helps the BBC Trust run their consultations online

Often, the most exciting work we do has to stay under wraps, so we’re really delighted to be able to buck that trend and show one of our favourite recent projects: delivering the BBC Trust’s online consultation system. In their … Continue reading

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Open Gov the Movie goes large in the US

So, last week week, Delib finally launched “Open Gov the Movie” the documentary film we shot whilst in Washington DC back in November, documenting the year since President Obama’s Open Government memorandum. The film features some pretty awesome / influential … Continue reading

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Practical learnings from online patient opinion trials

I’m now out of hospital (thankfully); however, the patient crowd-sourcing website I set up whilst in hospital – as a frustrated patient – is still up and running. helpusimprovekings.org has had mixed success since its launch and we’ve learnt a … Continue reading

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Open Gov the Movie launches in the US

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Open Gov the Movie – a short film we’ve made documenting the year since President Obama’s Open Government memorandum. To check it, visit: www.delib.co.uk/opengov “Open Gov the Movie” – from Delib from Delib … Continue reading

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WhiteHouse.gov: Anywhere

President Obamas’ administration want to know what citizens think, they are proving this by encouraging dialogues between state and citizens, something we were proudly able to help with last year using our Dialogue Platform. Now they want you to watch, … Continue reading

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Delib’s “technology not policy” Parliament Debate round-up

So we’re all now back from our “technology not policy, will win the 2010 election” debate in Parliament last night – which by all accounts went down very well.  First off a quick apology for anyone who couldn’t get into … Continue reading

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“Technology vs Policy Debate” – we are full!

Once again we have surpassed our expectations and are now over-subscribed for the debate on Monday 18th Jan. For those who have responded and will be attending, please make sure you get there with plenty of time to get through … Continue reading

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Governance 2020 roundtable – thoughts on the future of participative policy-making

This afternoon we put together a roundtable event @ the Hospital Club in Covent Garden to get a mix of Central and Local government policy-makers, consultation managers and communications advisers  to discuss how participative policy-making could be improved in UK … Continue reading

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