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Category Archives: Engagement
What Is The Big Society, And What If It Isn’t?
Interesting briefing paper out from the Consultation Institute today on what the Big Society might be, and how the government needs to issue more specifics on it, which reminded me of a point I’ve been pondering for a while. What … Continue reading
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Online Engagement With Youtube
I remember blogging about this sort of thing more than once back in the day, here and here for example, but this story in the e-Government Bulletin has left me really shocked. It’s a no brainer that if you want … Continue reading
More Budget Consultation, Budget Dialogues and Participatory Budgeting!
Everyone’s talking about spending and budgets at the moment, changes that are going to affect everyone’s lives. As well as the Government’s Spending Challenge Dialogue being run with our Dialogue App, it’s not surprising that we’re also getting tons of … Continue reading
How the UK government is turning itself into a platform
The concept of “government as a platform” is a simple one: just as the value of the iPhone has been maximised by opening up the iPhone and allowing users to create apps (200,000+ to date), so should government open itself … Continue reading
Online engagement – does design matter anymore?
When people buy our apps, we usually spend a while talking with them about designs and the look and feel of the system they want. Generally, people’s needs are pretty light, most likely due to the amount of time we … Continue reading
Partnership discounts for Budget Simulator
After talking to several councils about purchasing models for Budget Simulator and understanding the growing need for consulting on cuts this year, I’m pleased to say that we are now able to offer discounts for organisations buying in partnership. Hopefully, … Continue reading
Local Authorities, Government And Social Media
It’s funny how some ideas stay hidden for a long time, and then get mentioned by separate people in separate places all at the same time isn’t it? This idea’s one of those, and it’s a quick one really. Traditional … Continue reading
How can councils acheive £1bn in cuts? What if they stopped asking the public?
In light of George Osborne’s budget announcements a fortnight ago, this week the Local Government Association meets to discuss how it will make £1bn in savings. As part of this exercise, the Association invited 2,000 members of public to share … Continue reading
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How three UK councils used the internet for their consultation on budget cuts
From speaking to local authorities across the country, it’s very clear that the next round of budget consultations will be some of the most difficult and most important that most people have been involved in. I think it’s fair to … 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