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Citizen Space highlights
Featured consultation: Draft London Saftey Plan
Delib TV
And finally...
- Debug, a fun little game for Reed Exhibitions
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It's now time to get a bit more daring with e-democracy, says Michael Cross in the Guardian.
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Drum roll... trrrrrrrrrrr... we're proud to announce the re-launch of CitizenSpace.com!
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Maidstone have just closed their budget consultation for this year, including their Budget Simulator which, in the month it was live, collected over 770 responses.
Congratulations, Maidstone, on another successful implementation!
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Apparently, the average UK adult now requires at least 15 different security codes and passwords for accessing information and services. This trend has ramifications for consultation activity.
Read more about password protected e-consultations... |
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Northamptonshire County Council are making use of Facebook and You tube alongside more traditional channels, a practice which is having a measurable impact on their consultaiton response rate.
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Democracy Journal recently ran an interesting article about 'how open-source technology can make government decision-making more expert and more democratic'
Read more about Wiki-Government... |
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New data from the Pew Research Center puts some numbers around the growing influence of the Internet on political campaigns.
Read the full blog post: the internet influences politics... |
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China has moved to censor and control online video websites under new measures that could block YouTube and other services in China.
See full China censors YouTube post... |
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The BBC have a piece on the democratic application of Facebook's social capacity...it's always good to see mainstream recognition of these broad e-democratic principles.
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Within moments of new Facebook app 'Beacon' coming out, people started to complain about the invasion of privacy it contained
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Gez says 'I set up a new blog on Wordpress about a week ago, and as I did so, something unexpected happened: I started getting a fair bit of traffic to the site, and even people commenting on what I'd written. I hadn't yet told anyone about it or linked to it from anywhere, so where were they coming from?'
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YourPlaceormine.org.uk, the virtual debate platform for English Heritage's national conference, is a great example of making the most out of mixing blogging platforms with multi-media features such as podcasting.
Catch the full story: better late than never... |
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Friend and smart man Ed Mitchell has just blogged about this year's e-Consultancy and cScape Customer Engagement Survey, the conclusions of which include the fact that 'power is increasingly in the hands of the user'.
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The Public Office 'believe that public servants, industry leaders and other stakeholders should work together formally across their organisational boundaries to design effective and cost-efficient provision that is driven fully by the needs of the end-users'.
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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.
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