Every year I help run a course on “e-governance” for the Royal Institute of Public Administration. The course runs for 2 weeks over the summer, and my class is an assortment of civil servants from an assortment of countries - this year we had guys from Oman, India, Nigeria, Zambia and Ghana.
As part of the course I take the class on a magical mystery tour of e-governance projects across the… read more
I was in Berlin last week for the innovatively-titled ‘Berlin in July‘ e-democracy unconference (beat that for a pair of niche jargon buzzwords!). I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, the following things all being great:
The latest edition of the excitingly sporadic Delib newsletter is now available to read online: Delib newsletter, June ‘08.
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We’ve just put together an interesting little package for North East Connects, aimed at informing elected members about what e-Demcracy can do for them, and encouraging them to take up some or all of the benefits it can offer.
When we got the brief, it soon became apparent that the key objective in this project was presenting information in a clear, usable and engaging manner. So, we decided to dispense with… read more
Since its official launch yesterday, Opinion Tracker seems to be creating a real buzz within the political and marketing / research communities, requiring us to turn Opinion Tracker on itself to find out what people are saying about the product around the net…
Mentions so far include something nice and big from Brand Republic, a front page on Research Magazine and some good comments from our… read more
We may not have given $30 billion away to charity, however Delib and Microsoft have more in common than meets the eye. Yesterday, Bill Gates was in London giving a speech to the Institute of Directors about the internet, and how it has democratised the world - with things like blogs empowering individuals and helping give people a voice.
It so happened that at the exact same time, I… read more
I was more than a little surprised when I saw this on one of the billboards opposite our Bristol office this morning:
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‘Extra bank holiday’? ‘Vote for a free day’? That’s our campaign! You may remember our whole ‘Bristol Day’ campaign from last year but if… read more
Just before we all run off on our holiday-season holidays, we want to wish you a very
merry Christmas and happy New Year!
We hope you have a great time and we’ll speak to you in 2008… Bye for now!… read more
The November ‘07 edition of the (supposedly) monthly Delib newsletter was sent out on Monday and is available to read online at http://www.delib.co.uk/newsletter/november07.
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Interesting article on the BBC News site about the need for small businesses to get online and get marketing their sites. Not an e-democracy article as such, but the analogy about the need for online marketing is excellent, and very much applicable to the e-democracy world at the moment.
“Unless you have a well recognised brand name you need to have some way for people to find your site.”
“If you haven’t… read more