Category Archives: Debate

What’s smart for honeybees is smart for groups of people too

We (humans) think we’re a clever bunch, and always assume we’re the fonts of innovation and inventors of new solutions to problems – whether that’s a new technology or a new theory. However, often it’s the case that we’ve been … Continue reading

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Government Spending Challenge Data Opened Up Further

We launched another Dialogue App for UK Central Government last week, this time called the Spending Challenge, which is asking for people’s ideas on public spending and how money might be saved, be it from a small issue or a … Continue reading

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Bristol e-Participatory Budgeting Pilot Working Well

As we’ve mentioned before, we do far more interesting work here at Delib than we can talk about, due to client sensitivities. Even more important though, we rarely get to talk about the results of what we do in terms … Continue reading

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Are There Questions You Should Include In Any Consultation, From Online To Offline?

We’ve been doing work here recently on online consultation survey architectures with regards to required questions. It’s more fun than it sounds, honest. For one, it’s thrown up some bigger questions that got me thinking about the nature of consultation … Continue reading

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How The Internet Might Be Influencing The Election

There’s been a lot of talk, obviously, about how the internet will affect the election. Obviously a few months back we held our debate on whether technology or policy will win the 2010 election, and the overwhelming consensus at the … Continue reading

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Leaders’ Debate Live Blog!

23:52pm Found myself sitting next to a chap who got invited into the Leaders Debate itself, and got to ask him how it happened. Apparently, one Friday night at 7pm, he got a knock on the door from ICM. He … Continue reading

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Leaders Debate in our backyard!

Using my Nancy Drew powers of detection (and now realising the internet has known for ages!) I have found out that the Leaders Debate is being held in the Arnolfini in Bristol. Precisely 3 minutes from our office and on … Continue reading

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The Digital Debate

Youtube + Facebook + text + Google Moderator + leadership debates = the Digital Debate. One to watch…

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Bristol City Council e-Participatory Budgeting Pilot Goes Live

Council Leader Barbara Janke at the launch of www.itsmybristol.org on Friday Here’s a fun little project we’ve been doing for Bristol City Council over the last few months. Participatory Budgeting, especially doing it online, is a hot topic at the … Continue reading

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Bristol City Council’s New Website

I’m just back from this event, getting together the ‘great and good’ of the Bristol digital media community to discuss what the council should do with its new website. The backstory is that the council has seen that its current … Continue reading

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