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Crowd-source ideas and policies online.
www.dialogue-app.com
Run great budget consultation online. www.budgetsimulator.com
The purpose-built tool for governments to consult online.
www.quick-consult.com/
An open-source democracy platform.
www.citizenspace.com/
Category Archives: Good examples
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
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
Spreading Freedom with widgets
Within a few hours of the Your Freedom dialogue/crowd-sourcing site launching, we’re already seeing the ideas being distributed on sites via widgets. Here are a couple that we particularly like: @lesteph – Build your own Widget http://ht2.helpfultechnology.com/yourwidget/ props to @lesteph … Continue reading
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
Dialogue App-powered QHSR project wins Intergovernmental Solutions Award
Going one better than our previous nomination for a Citizen Service Award, the pioneering National Dialogues for the US Department of Homeland Security won an Intergovernmental Solutions Award this week. The project was based on the Dialogue App platform (albeit a pretty souped-up … Continue reading
Can you get twice as many responses to a consultation by running it online?
Wycombe Council did when they used our Budget Simulator to run their budget consultation last year. But don’t just take my word for it; check out Jeff Wilmore, the Council’s Head of Communications, and Tony Green, the Council’s Deputy Leader, … Continue reading
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Learning about Accessibility
I went to a talk at lunchtime last Friday entitled ‘WCAG 2.0 for usability specialists’ by Mike Cooper from W3C. Actually it was just outlining how lots of usability improvements automatically make sites more accessible and that this cross over … Continue reading
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Why should I take my Budget Consultation online?
Download this blog post as a pdf here Speaking to people about budget consultation all day, I hear a lot of different reasons as to why people are hesitant to make the move to online. I thought that it might … Continue reading
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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