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More e-democracy
And finally...
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This month, we enjoyed a day out at the Headstar e-Democracy conference 2007. This was the third time we've been to this event, and every time it gets better and better
Read more about our day at the Headstar e-Democracy conference... |
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The City Together is a local partnership of public, private, voluntary and community sector bodies, plus representatives from the City,
which wanted to consult residents and stakeholders on the City's Sustainable Community Strategy.
Read the full story at "Blogging
as consultation"... |
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The BBC has set up a dedicated internet blog (all blogs seem to end up being about the internet, don't they?) to 'talk about issues
raised by you about the technology behind bbc.co.uk, [their] mobile services and the BBC's presence on the internet.'
Read more about "BBC internet blog: owning the debate"... |
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Gez recently spoke at the Consultation Institute's 'Technologies for Participation' event, their first formal venture specifically into our home turf of e-participation.
Read more about Gez's day at Technologies for Participation... |
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Maidstone Borough Council have decided to use Budget Simulator as part of their budget consultation process this year.
Read more about the Maidstone Budget Simulator... |
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Britain has not enough official holidays in our view. We can't
change that across the country (Gordon Brown could, if he chose
to), but we can give Team Rubber people (including Delib people)
one extra 'statutory' holiday.
Read full "Happy Bristol Day!" post... |
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Our contribution to the Hansard Society's 'Parliament for the Future' project has been published and right leaning blogger Iain Dale has published his second guide to UK political blogging.
Read more about "Delib in print"... |
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They've got lots of the e-democracy bases covered -- accountability,
transparency, personlisation, conversation -- with their features,
all of which have been served up with a specific proposition ('see
where contributions have come from', 'compare candidates on issues'
etc) and in a specific context (the US presidential elections).
Read more on "Political Base"... |
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We should go to Jeremy Gould's UKGovWeb barcamp because he has a lot of good stuff to say and because 'this event should be of interest to all who work in the UK government digital media community: permanent civil servants, contractors, consultants, agencies, advisers, supporters, observers, and critics.
Read more on "We
should go"... |
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At the e-Democracy conference in London on Thursday, there was as ever lots of talk of 'innovative' ways of connecting people and government,
although pleasingly there was a different mood around this year on the idea, of which more later.
Read more on "The
content is king"... |
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It's taken as a given over here, or at least should be, that when a politician says 'we need a national debate on X',
generally nothing of the sort happens. Perhaps as a result, we often look to the USA for real national debates, especially in the online sphere.
Read full story on "Can we ever have a real debate?"... |
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We've spent a lot of the last year making, doing and managing stuff -- and, nice as that is, it's meant that the information about what
we do has fallen a bit behind the reality.
Catch the full story on "Collateral catch-up"... |
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Not much more to say on this that isn't said in the original source post, other than it's real worry if true and it passes. Let's hope the idea doesn't catch on over here.
Read full blog post on "Threat to e-Democracy in Italy"... |
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