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Category Archives: Participation
What’s smart for honeybees is smart for groups of people too
We (humans) think we’re a clever bunch, and always assume we’re the fonts of innovation and inventors of new solutions to problems – whether that’s a new technology or a new theory. However, often it’s the case that we’ve been … Continue reading
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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
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
What’s next?
This post has lots of pictures in it, which makes it look quite long. Just so you know. We’re all big fans of the West Wing – especially the rapid-fire dispatching of problems and moving on to the next thing, … Continue reading
Two basic motivations for taking public consultation/citizen interaction processes online
I quite often talk about there being two basic motivations for taking public consultation/citizen interaction processes online, namely accessibility and aspiration – respectively, the need to ensure participation is available through all major communication channels (like the internet), and the … Continue reading
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Building Britain’s Digital Future: ‘a chance to reinvent deliberative democracy for the modern age’
This is supposed to be about action more than words so I’ll kick off with my proposed outcome and you can read the rationale if you want to: let’s get some interested people together and help design the future of … Continue reading
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Consultation Institute Wrong On e-Participation
We like the Consultation Institute. Their courses are interesting and they’ve come from nothing to national prominence in just a few years, all impressive stuff. But occasionally, when it comes to online consultation, they seem to miss a few tricks. … Continue reading
Practical learnings from online patient opinion trials
I’m now out of hospital (thankfully); however, the patient crowd-sourcing website I set up whilst in hospital – as a frustrated patient – is still up and running. helpusimprovekings.org has had mixed success since its launch and we’ve learnt a … Continue reading
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Benefits of Open Government Data
I’m excited by the current interest in both making government data available, and visualising it to help people make deliberative decisions. Jennifer Bell has posted a great set of slides about open government (produced by VisibleGovernment.ca). Visualisation is pretty shiny. … Continue reading
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Washington Day 1: thoughts (part 2) on White House Citizen Participation
Part 2: projects and pragmatism So in the previous exciting installment, I tried to briefly summarise how the current US administration has taken hold of the principle of participation. The next part of our conversation was about the work of … Continue reading
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