Author Archives: Gez Smith

Another Outcome From The #yourfreedom Dialogue

It’s been interesting to see just how much criticism has emerged over the last few months of the ‘Your Freedom’ national dialogue the government ran using our Dialogue App. Some of it’s contained some interesting ideas for how things could … Continue reading

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Local Authorities In Not Adopting e-Petitions Shocker

So, the entirely predictable news is out that over 2/3rds of UK Local Authorities haven’t complied with the law to provide an e-petitioning system which came into force last december. I was in two minds about this when the law … Continue reading

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UK Govcamp 2011 – A live blog

UPDATE 16:30 (from Robin) 2 more action packed sessions! First up was a discussion on using WordPress in government, showcasing the new DEFRA website with WP 3.0 multi-site implementation. Second was an excellent talk on Open Data where I was … Continue reading

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What Should e-Consultation Training Include?

We’ve just blogged on what we think training in an e-consultation system should include over on the Citizen Space blog, and concluded it should be so much more than just being about the system itself. What do you think?

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A look back at 2010…Citizen Space

Of all the things that have gone on at Delib towers this year, our open source e-consultation platform Citizen Space has been the big story. It all started off back in 2008 really. We ditched our old Citizen Space Local … Continue reading

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A Look Back At 2010…Dialogue App

Dialogue App was our big project of 2009 really, working with our friends at NAPA in Washington DC to run national dialogues across the USA. But 2010 was the year that the concept of online policy dialogue started to go … Continue reading

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The Top Ten Posts On The Delib Blog For 2010

Over the last year, our blog has had over 21,000 page views from over 16,000 visits. If you’re one of the many who have been following our blog over the last year, we thought you might be interested to know … Continue reading

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Bristol Open Data Hack Day Kicks Off

So here we all are at the Colston Hall for the open data hack day we’re putting on in conjunction with Bristol City Council. There’s a great atmosphere in the room, the event sold out and we’ve just come up … Continue reading

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Citizen Space launches- an open source consultation and engagement platform

Delib has launched Citizen Space, an open-source consultation and engagement platform.  Citizen Space has been developed as a collaborative project between the UK Government and digital democracy company Delib, and has been designed to help government departments to set-up, organise … Continue reading

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Who’s Using Citizen Space?

We know what it’s like. Not many organisations like to be the first to adopt to something, especially when it comes to something as sensitive as consultation and engagement. So, aside from the wide range of accessibility and security testing … Continue reading

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