Archive for the 'Good examples' Category
Posted by Ben on Mar 08 2010 |
Democracy and government, Good examples, Projects and client work
Last summer, we, in partnership with
NAPA, worked on a series of three pioneering
National Dialogues for the US Department of Homeland Security. Excitingly, this project has now been nominated for a
Citizen Service Award.
The awards, which are hosted by the U.S.
General Services Administration, recognise innovative citizen outreach efforts by government offices. The Quadrennial Homeland Security Review was an initiative by DHS to…
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Posted by Gez Smith on Mar 04 2010 |
Advice, Consultation, Conversations, Engagement, Good examples, Opinion research, Projects and client work
Amongst the different public sector organisations, PCTs are very often responsible for decisions that are affect huge numbers of people and cover issues that people feel strongly passionate about.
These issues and decisions are often difficult. This makes it all the more important to consult on them, but at the same time all the more daunting a prospect.
We've been running online consultations since 2004, frequently around difficult or contentious issues. Particularly…
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Posted by AdamC on Mar 01 2010 |
Advice, Consultation, Delib news and events, Engagement, Good examples
The internet can seem a risky place to engage with people on Policing matters but already this year we're seeing Authorities using it to great effect - joining the conversation, increasing the quality of discussion and engaging with more people.
One pertinent topic right now is the budget with many opinions on how people think their Authority should spend their funds. Already this year, we've worked with 3 Police Authorities to…
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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 Ben on Feb 01 2010 |
Consultation, Engagement, Good examples, Projects and client work
Further to
my post last week about delivering the
BBC Trust's online consultation system, here's a pleasing example of it in action: the Trust are currently running a
consultation on the BBC's on-demand services and have been promoting it through
iPlayer.
We like this for a few reasons:
- as big
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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 AnthonyG on Jan 20 2010 |
Conversations, Delib news and events, Good examples
President Obamas' administration want to know what citizens think, they are proving this by encouraging dialogues between state and citizens, something we were proudly able to help with last year using our
Dialogue Platform. Now they want you to watch, listen and understand them via the new iPhone app
WhiteHouse.gov: Anywhere.
The emergence of internet enabled phones and their proliferation will certainly add an interesting paradigm to the Opengov…
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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 05 2010 |
Advice, Conversations, Debate, Engagement, Good examples
Close to my heart this one, not just because it's to do with my home city, nor because I used to work there, but because the broader issue has been a personal bugbear of mine for ages. Namely, public sector organisations trying to use discussion forums.
Have said it before, but… read more
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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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