The Central Office of Information has just launched a new, public, departmental blog.
Following the COI’s internal blogging efforts on CivilBlogs, and the results of a review on the topic of ‘Improving Government Online,’ the Digital Policy team decided to throw open their discussion to the public, and set up Digigov to talk about digital policy online with “other departments, agencies, web developers, bloggers and academics.” Adam Bailin is running the WordPress site which can be found here.
The initial reaction from bloggers seems good. Positive noises from paulcanning, Simon Dickson at Puffbox, and Neil Williams at Mission Creep suggest if Digigov lives up to its promising start it could be a valuable and open place to evaluate and debate the Government’s digital engagement strategies. What do you think?
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