Author Archives: Gez Smith

Another Dialogue App Launched

Always good to report shipping news from the studio here at Delib Towers. Today we’ve shipped another Dialogue App for our good friends at NAPA in the USA. This one’s a National Dialogue on Green and Healthy Homes, which you … Continue reading

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Jolitics – Yet More Online Politics

Another day, another e-democracy project. Michael Birch, the guy who co-founded the linguistically incomprehensible world of Bebo, is setting up a new site called ‘Jolitics’ to get young people more involved in politics and decision making. It’s yet another take … Continue reading

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Delete Sutton Blog, Delete Everything

This is a bit of an angry blog that’s sprung up today, and it’s more a blog post split out across a series of posts in a way, but it does make some good points. It’s pulling apart the website … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer Increasingly Less Used

It’d be no surprise to anyone I wouldn’t think, that Internet Explorer is not exactly our favourite browser here at Delib towers. Not only do none of us use it at work or at home, it’s also the one that … Continue reading

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Getter blaster: we’re hiring for a great ‘getter’/marketing maestro

We’re out to get a ‘getter’. Delib is an exciting company with everything in place to grow: we’ve got a suite of quality apps, good positioning in an interesting market (digital democracy), a long client list, good reputation and have … Continue reading

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Disruptive idea proposal: making sense of mass participation

We decided to enter a proposal into the short-notice Technology Strategy Board ‘Innovate 10: Disruptive Solutions’ competition last week but, due to some untimely internet fail, managed to miss the video upload deadline by about half an hour. However, we … Continue reading

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Learn about our apps in minutes with video tours

We’ve been having fun with making short, sharp videos to help explain our apps to the world (mostly the English-speaking parts of it at the moment, I guess).  We know our apps inside-out and like them a lot — we … Continue reading

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Spending Challenge wraps up; government takes ideas forward

So on Friday the Treasury’s public ideas-gathering/crowdsourcing Spending Challenge site wrapped up, having collected more than 44,000 suggestions from the public. You can read more on the Treasury’s website or watch this quick BBC interview with George Osborne. Both the … Continue reading

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What Is The Big Society, And What If It Isn’t?

Interesting briefing paper out from the Consultation Institute today on what the Big Society might be, and how the government needs to issue more specifics on it, which reminded me of a point I’ve been pondering for a while. What … Continue reading

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