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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Why should I take my Budget Consultation online?
Download this blog post as a pdf here Speaking to people about budget consultation all day, I hear a lot of different reasons as to why people are hesitant to make the move to online. I thought that it might … Continue reading
Hijacking Consultations – Does It Actually Matter?
It’s something we’ve come across a lot over the years here, the worry that if you take consultation online, you’ll just open yourself up to campaign groups and special interests stuffing your consultation full of their unique take on the … Continue reading
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
Save time, money and hassle without sacrificing take-up, usability or efficiency – 8 commonly-requested things that you don’t actually need to build into your consultation system
Writing a specification for an online consultation system can be a very cathartic exercise. You can set out all the things that bother you about the way things are done at the moment, all the things you might like to … Continue reading
How Not To Tender For e-Consultation Software
This is an issue that’s vexed us for some years here, but having just seen the most ridiculous tender process we’ve ever come across, we really have to say something for the good of all. After all, if we ignore … Continue reading
Posted in Tips & tricks to help you
Tagged e-consultation, online consultation software, opinion suite, tender
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Building Britain’s Digital Future: ‘a chance to reinvent deliberative democracy for the modern age’
This is supposed to be about action more than words so I’ll kick off with my proposed outcome and you can read the rationale if you want to: let’s get some interested people together and help design the future of … Continue reading
Posted in From other people
Tagged deliberative democracy, digital government, gordon brown
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How to make open government sustainable – SXSW round-up #1
If SXSW is geek central. Then yesterday’s “In code we trust” session was geek government central. And it was a really interesting session. Geeks in government is a pretty big thing these days – something proved by yesterday’s “In code … Continue reading
Posted in From Delib
Tagged crowdsourcing, online participation, open government, open source, SXSW, transparency
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7 things I learnt about crowd-sourcing @ SXSW
The best thing about SXSW is the people – as there’s some really very smart people to learn from. Here’s 7 things learnt from @scottbelsky (founder of the Behance community) and @Jeffrey (UX director at Digg) about crowd-sourcing: 1) Jeff … Continue reading
Bristol City Council’s New Website
I’m just back from this event, getting together the ‘great and good’ of the Bristol digital media community to discuss what the council should do with its new website. The backstory is that the council has seen that its current … Continue reading
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
Posted in From Delib, From other people
Tagged citizen service award, DHS, NAPA, QHSR
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