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Author Archives: ChrisQ
How the UK government is turning itself into a platform
The concept of “government as a platform” is a simple one: just as the value of the iPhone has been maximised by opening up the iPhone and allowing users to create apps (200,000+ to date), so should government open itself … Continue reading
Delib in the Guardian
We’ve been working in the digital democracy space for close to 10 years now, so it was nice to get a call from the Guardian back in May to ask if I (as one of the co-founders of Delib) would … Continue reading
Government as a platform – infographic
I first came across the idea of “government as a platform” when I was interviewing Tim O’Reilly earlier in the year. Tim’s quickest way of explaining “gov as a platform” was using the iPhone as an analogy: i.e. just as … Continue reading
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Great Reform Act 2.0 is GO!
Some political ideas just make sense. And the Coalition’s Great Reform Act 2.0 (or “Your Freedom” as it’s officially called) is one of those. I was lucky enough to be invited along to the launch event this morning (at the … Continue reading
Crowd-sourcing – hot or not?
In the words of Mugatu in comedy flick Zoolander, crowd-sourcing is “so hot right now”. Dell want to launch a new computer – first thing they do is listen to the needs of the crowd across their Ideastorm crowd-sourcing app. … Continue reading
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Welcome to Government as a participative platform
There are some people you should never ignore. That’s the clever people. So, whilst working over in the US we’ve been making sure we’ve had our ears (and eyes) open listening to lots of clever people sharing their clever ideas … Continue reading
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Delib’s European Parliament project wins award – whoop whoop!
We do a lot of work. A lot of great work. Most of which due to the nature we can’t tell anyone about. Anyway, there’s one project that we launched earlier in the year that we can now tell everyone … Continue reading
How to make open government sustainable – SXSW round-up #1
If SXSW is geek central. Then yesterday’s “In code we trust” session was geek government central. And it was a really interesting session. Geeks in government is a pretty big thing these days – something proved by yesterday’s “In code … Continue reading
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7 things I learnt about crowd-sourcing @ SXSW
The best thing about SXSW is the people – as there’s some really very smart people to learn from. Here’s 7 things learnt from @scottbelsky (founder of the Behance community) and @Jeffrey (UX director at Digg) about crowd-sourcing: 1) Jeff … Continue reading
Structured and unstructured conversations
The Cluetrain Manifesto famously stated that markets have become “conversations” – something that has never been truer in today’s social media whirl. However, something that we’ve noted recently is that not all conversations that organisations have with their customers and … Continue reading
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