Category Archives: Projects and client work

More Budget Consultation, Budget Dialogues and Participatory Budgeting!

Everyone’s talking about spending and budgets at the moment, changes that are going to affect everyone’s lives. As well as the Government’s Spending Challenge Dialogue being run with our Dialogue App, it’s not surprising that we’re also getting tons of … Continue reading

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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

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‘is [Your Freedom] the silliest new govt website or the most inspired?’

That was the question posed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy of http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/ on his Twitter account yesterday – and it nicely encapsulates the ability for an exercise and site like this to polarise opinion. There’s been a lot of coverage and comment … Continue reading

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Looking after ‘Your Freedom’ site as it’s strained by intense demand

So at Delib towers, we’re still here, looking after the http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk website we set live earlier today. We’re excited to be working on this project, which really does look like it could be, as Nick Clegg said this morning, ‘the … 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

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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

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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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Delib’s European Parliament project wins award – whoop whoop!

We do a lot of work. A lot of great work. Most of which due to the nature we can’t tell anyone about. Anyway, there’s one project that we launched earlier in the year that we can now tell everyone … 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

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QHSR National Dialogues nominated for citizen service award

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 … Continue reading

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