A quick note to all those heading to the bright lights of London, Tuesday, 11th November to the Headstar E-Democracy Conference 08, that a full Delib contingent will be present, and happy to discuss all things e-consultation and online opinion research.
In addition we are running a workshop entitled “Open source in e-Democracy - How good can it be if it’s
This is just a quick post to welcome back some Councils who have renewed their Budget Simulator licenses in the last few weeks.
A tip of the hat to Oldham, Maidstone, Slough, and Suffolk Coastal, who have once again recognised the importance of online outreach and engagement on budgetary issues. Not only does the Budget Simulator use an engaging format for making budget allocation more accessible, but it educates… read more
After finally getting an errant fax machine to work Delib have become the newest member of PEP-NET!
PEP-NET offer an online forum for European-wide e-democracy stakeholders to share ideas, disseminate best practice, and generally learn more about all the different e-participation projects and research that is going on.
Its all very well me describing it, but they do a much better job, so check out http://pep-net.eu/wordpress/
Delib look forward working with… read more
As those who keep up with the Team Rubber blog know, we have just launched a very shiny Ideas Forest and Blog for DIUS at http://ideas.iagreview.org.uk/
This marks an exciting step forward for our Ideas Tree platform, by creating a forest of subjects to add ideas to, tied in with a blog to really facilitate deeper discussion of those ideas.
Personally I think its a thing… read more
The subject matter of this consultation is really interesting, the MoJs Consultation Paper on Weekend Voting unfortunately is not so forward thinking in its practice as it is in its content. Check out the website for the consultation http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/cp1308.htm, can you see an online response mechanism there? Nope, nor could we. Does it end in about a week, and did I hear about it? No there… read more
Myself and Gez attended the National Participatory Budgeting Conference yesterday, at the Midland Hotel in Manchester. Despite the early start and threatened train delays (no 6 am journey is complete without that announcement, is it?) we got there in time to hear the keynote address by Hazel Blears.
The resounding message I got from the Secretary of State’s speech and the conference overall was enthusiasm for the PB process, but a… read more