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Posted by MichaelaD on Feb 12 2010 |
Consultation, Engagement, Good examples, Ideas-sharing
MHRA’s medicines information discussion site goes live
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the government watchdog responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe, has commissioned an online discussion site asking the public whether key information about medicines should be available online.
The discussion site, aimed at health professionals and the public, asks whether making the MHRA’s definitive database of patient information leaflets (PILs) and…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Feb 11 2010 |
Delib news and events
Email signatures every now and again are the bane of my life. Incomplete email signatures, such as those without any contact details are just not useful. The simple copy/paste of everyone's details from an email signature genuinely saves me plenty of time while negotiating all the databases, sites and systems I have to use everyday.
A good email signature is a very useful thing, and this is where the e-partciaption bit…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Dec 09 2009 |
Delib news and events
Our
online budget consultation tool Budget Simulator has always been customized and tailored to suit the different consulting needs of the Councils, Police Authorities and other organisations that use it. Each little amendment adds something that ensures a great fit with their individual process, but it also allows us to see new ways to constantly improve our product.
With that in mind we have created a new demo, the excitingly…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Nov 02 2009 |
Delib news and events
We've recently completed our audit of local authority online consultation offerings across the UK. Over the past couple of months, our researchers have been exploring things like how easy it is to find and participate in consultation exercises online, and identifying best practices and common pitfalls.
We ran this audit because we wanted to understand the lie of the land and hopefully to help local authorities continually improve their offerings for…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Oct 05 2009 |
Delib news and events
Another interesting paper which caught my eye this month. This time its the GSA in the US who have put together an international array of best practice and thought pieces on different projects going on around citizen engagement in government.
http://www.usaservices.gov/pdf_docs/EngagingCitizensII.pdf
My particular faves are the "National Dialogues Build Communites" and " Brazil and Argentina: From Partcipatory Budgeting to e-Partcipatory Budgeting" articles.
Anyone else have any other…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Sep 16 2009 |
Delib news and events
In April we arranged a gathering of Participatory Budgeting aficionados to talk about the potential of online Participatory Budgeting (ePB). This meeting has helped form a discussion paper on the subject written by the
PB Unit which can be found
here.
In addition the PB Unit have out together some guidance for people deicding whether ePB is something that shuld be included in their PB process. You can see…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Aug 27 2009 |
Conversations
This one appeared in my inbox under 'general interest' and I think its prime for sharing.
The
BBC Digital Revolution project is looking to crowd-source ideas and content on how 20 years of the World WideWeb has changed our lives, which they will collate into four 1 hour documentaries to be shown on BBC 2.
Here is their take on why people should contribute:
Why should I?
This story will reach a wide…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Jul 31 2009 |
Consultation, Democracy and government, Good examples
Tell Them What You Think beta
A massive government-wide consultation finder database! About time!
Its currently in beta so its not all singing and dancing as yet, but what a fantastic premise. We at Delib are no stranger to a consultation finder database but the scale and utility of this site deserves some extra attention.
On a personal note Im a big fan already and was actually directed to it from a…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Jun 24 2009 |
Engagement, Good examples, Participation, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords
It may seem an obvious point to many but the importance of Twitter (and other social media) in the Iranian protests and their suppression over the allegedly fraudulent election has made a massive impact on how I view the micro-blog.
A few months ago, I was really struggling to see the utility of Twitter: I had seen it used pretty well as as an ideas-gathering device ('I'm giving a talk on…
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Posted by MichaelaD on Jun 05 2009 |
Advice, Good examples, Participation
This is a repost of a Facebook message from Tiago Peixoto I received from the Participatory Budgeting group .
( I am reading the e-government and participatory budgeting sections with particular interest.)
Repost from The Partcipatory Budgeting Facebook group
From the Facebook message:
Empowering Communities: A systematic review of the evidence
On the 1st of June, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) in the UK published online the paper “Empowering communities to…
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