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Posted by Gez Smith on Feb 02 2010 |
Bad examples, Consultation, Democracy and government, Engagement, Participation
We like the Consultation Institute. Their courses are interesting and they've come from nothing to national prominence in just a few years, all impressive stuff.
But occasionally, when it comes to online consultation, they seem to miss a few tricks. Their newsletter this week is… read more
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Posted by Gez Smith on Jan 27 2010 |
Conversations, Debate, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords
Interesting
report out from Tweetminster the other day about the amount of politicians and political parties using Twitter at the moment, which hopefully adds a bit of context to the whole 'This will be an internet' election meme around at the moment.
More interesting in many ways though is the response to it from the political chattering types, and
Tweetminster's response to that. Lots of useful stuff…
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Posted by Ben on Jan 18 2010 |
Delib news and events, Democracy and government
Once again we have surpassed our expectations and are now over-subscribed for the
debate on Monday 18th Jan. For those who have responded and will be attending, please make sure you get there with plenty of time to get through security and get into the queue - it will be first come, first served on the night! Kick-off's at 6.30pm – speakers include Rishi Saha, Kerry McCarthy MP, Rory…
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Posted by AdamC on Jan 12 2010 |
Advice, Consultation, Conversations, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples
Moving to an online-based budget consultation is a great first step in increasing engagement - and given the potential to connect via the internet, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a document containing tips on
how to boost response levels for an online budget consultation.
After four years of working with Councils on
budget consultation, we've seen a lot of strategies for maximising the…
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Posted by Gez Smith on Jan 04 2010 |
Advice, Democracy and government
It's been too cold to be doing much over the festive break, so interesting stuff online has been excellent in keeping cabin fever at bay.
Two articles in particular caught the eye in the last week, which seem worth sharing.
First of all, as a warm up to our debate in a couple of weeks,
here's an article from the Guardian claiming, somewhat boldy, that 'the 2010 election will be
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Posted by AdamC on Dec 14 2009 |
Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples
As I've been speaking to people about our Budget Simulator this year, it's become clear that many councils and other authorities are facing difficult decisions on their budget plans. Many authorities are left only with the choice of which services to cut back on and by how much - just search
"Council Cuts" on the BBC to see the ever-growing list of councils in this position
.
This situation makes…
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Posted by Andy on Dec 01 2009 |
Advice, Democracy and government, Engagement, Participation
I'm excited by the current interest in both making government data available, and visualising it to help people make deliberative decisions.
Jennifer Bell has posted a
great set of slides about open government (produced by
VisibleGovernment.ca).
Visualisation is pretty shiny. Try a search for
Government Data Visualisation for example - you'll find plenty of food for thought.
I think this is a great way to involve people…
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Posted by Ben on Nov 23 2009 |
Bad examples, Democracy and government, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords
Anyone else catch this (the episode and the drift)? I watched the
latest episode of Spooks over the weekend (and enjoyed it, so what?) and, part-way through, realised that it was actually a dramatisation of what's going on in the heads of those risk-averse types who see in online participation cause for terror and dread and disruption, rather than opportunity and progress and value.
I don't want to give the…
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Posted by Ben on Nov 05 2009 |
Democracy and government, Engagement, Participation
Part 2: projects and pragmatism
So in the
previous exciting installment, I tried to briefly summarise how the current US administration has taken hold of the principle of participation. The next part of our conversation was about the work of realising that principle in activity, about the challenges of actually adopting more participation into the process of governance.
I'm not gonna pretend to have answers to these; I'm just gonna represent…
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Posted by JessG on Nov 05 2009 |
Consultation, Democracy and government, Opinion research, Participation
Take a look at our
video about the National Dialogue we ran on Health, IT and Privacy, which asks the question "How should we expand the use of information technology and protect personal privacy to improve health care?".
On the eve of the 2008 Presidential Election, citizens and stakeholders from across the US convened to create a vision for the future of America's health, IT and privacy policies. We worked…
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