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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: Ideas-sharing
Andy’s Rules #1631 – What makes “good”?
This is a rule I’ve been using for a while now. Great for making web apps “good”, but can be used in other places too (product design, customer service, copywriting, advertising). Being “good” is a route to “win”. 80% practicality … Continue reading
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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
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
Crowdsourcing quick wins for government ICT strategy with SOCITM
I went along to a SOCITM South West event in Exeter last Friday where local authority IT managers were encouraged and challenged to think about the role of ICT in the new world of budget cuts and the big society; … Continue reading
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
Andy’s Rules #1524 – Words and Pictures
Text doesn’t express your feelings brilliantly Most email is misunderstood by recipients. Same probably goes for blogging, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube comments, and other things that mostly use text like chat apps and forums.
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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
6’66″ – Sympathy For The Devil (…or how to make Powerpoint interesting)
[Image courtesy of : Wendelboe on Flickr] The *devil* in question was indeed the force of office evil that is pointless Powerpoint, and Tom Alcott from the Social Network Company gave us a masterclass in how to keep presentations succinct, … Continue reading
The day we designed digital deliberative democracy
Last Friday, as I’d hoped to do, we got some smart and interesting people together at our offices (and a couple of nearby pubs) in Bristol to figure out what digital deliberative democracy might/should look like when mapped on to some … Continue reading
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