http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog Thought and news on e-democracy Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:53:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/holiday-ocracy/ Here comes a straight press release...  Thoughts, anyone? As part of the government's consultation to gain opinions and views on its higher education debate - JISC is hosting a blog on its JISC Involve platform. The Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), John Denham launched a debate on Higher ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/dius-higher-education-debate-blog-launched-on-jisc-platform/ 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 place -- Berlin is cool, no two ways about it; the people -- everyone I met ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/berlin-in-july-enthusiastic-overview/ They've been a long time coming, but the civil service guidelines for participation online have been published recently. They're either pretty light touch, or perhaps just deliberately loosely defined for whatever purpose, but they largely make sense. They are; 1. Be credible * Be accurate, fair, thorough and transparent. 2. Be consistent * Encourage constructive criticism ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/civil-service-online-participation-guidelines/ A colleague pointed this out to me today, a new site 'Politics and the City', ostensibly run by television presenter June Sarpong. It's designed to engage women more in the political process by presenting a regular mix of political news and celebrity gossip. It will also feature a range of ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/junes-new-site-launched-in-july/ The latest edition of the excitingly sporadic Delib newsletter is now available to read online: Delib newsletter, June '08. If you're not signed up to receive the newsletter yet, you're missing out: it's free, less hassle and better-looking than an RSS feed, and even comes with a couple of newsletter-exclusive extras.  ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/june-newsletter-now-available/ 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 ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/new-north-east-conects-storyboard-application/ Some of you will have been following this on other blogs anyway, and there are good conversations on them to join in with about all of this if you want, but would be foolish to ignore the news that the government, after a little delay, has finally pulled the plug ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/the-demise-of-icele/ One of our contacts at the European Parliament has set up a Facebook group entitled 'I'm going to vote in the Euro elections in 2009' and is looking for interesting and exciting things to do with it to take its membership beyond the current (very respectable) 260-odd and counting. He's keen ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/what-would-you-to-get-facebookers-interested-in-the-euro-elections/ According to this story, Gordon Brown is going to be launching an online version of Prime Minister's Question Time In June. It's an attempt to 'reconnect with younger voters' according to the BBC (isn't everything online described as that now?) and will be a regular event. It's going to be run ... http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/number-10-takes-pmqs-to-youtube/