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Author Archives: Gez Smith
Online Engagement With Youtube
I remember blogging about this sort of thing more than once back in the day, here and here for example, but this story in the e-Government Bulletin has left me really shocked. It’s a no brainer that if you want … Continue reading
Shiver Me Timbers, It Was Pugwash Time!
I tweeted on the Delib Twitter account last Wednesday that we were about to play the Captain Pugwash theme tune on the development floor here at Delib Towers, and that an explanation would be on the blog soon, so here … Continue reading
More Budget Consultation, Budget Dialogues and Participatory Budgeting!
Everyone’s talking about spending and budgets at the moment, changes that are going to affect everyone’s lives. As well as the Government’s Spending Challenge Dialogue being run with our Dialogue App, it’s not surprising that we’re also getting tons of … Continue reading
Delib on BBC Radio Newcastle
On Friday I had a surprising text from Gez which read, “Youre going on the radio in fifteen minutes” (kthxbai). Once I had established that this was actually true, and had a quick chat with Jonathan Miles’s producer at BBC … Continue reading
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Tagged Consultation, policy crowdsourcing, spending challenge, your freedom
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Online engagement – does design matter anymore?
When people buy our apps, we usually spend a while talking with them about designs and the look and feel of the system they want. Generally, people’s needs are pretty light, most likely due to the amount of time we … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, avoid waste, branding, cost saving, design, how to, online consultation software, tips
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Local Authorities, Government And Social Media
It’s funny how some ideas stay hidden for a long time, and then get mentioned by separate people in separate places all at the same time isn’t it? This idea’s one of those, and it’s a quick one really. Traditional … Continue reading
Posted in From Delib, From other people
Tagged local authority, local government, openness, participation, policy, public service, reputation, Social media, transparency, twitter
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‘is [Your Freedom] the silliest new govt website or the most inspired?’
That was the question posed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy of http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/ on his Twitter account yesterday – and it nicely encapsulates the ability for an exercise and site like this to polarise opinion. There’s been a lot of coverage and comment … Continue reading
Looking after ‘Your Freedom’ site as it’s strained by intense demand
So at Delib towers, we’re still here, looking after the http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk website we set live earlier today. We’re excited to be working on this project, which really does look like it could be, as Nick Clegg said this morning, ‘the … Continue reading
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Tagged crowdsourcing, nick clegg, policy crowdsourcing, your freedom, your freedom delib
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Crowdsourcing quick wins for government ICT strategy with SOCITM
I went along to a SOCITM South West event in Exeter last Friday where local authority IT managers were encouraged and challenged to think about the role of ICT in the new world of budget cuts and the big society; … Continue reading
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Tagged big society, crowdsourcing, fixmystreet, open source, open source democracy, policy crowdsourcing, socitm
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Data Security Vs Data Freedom, How Does That Work Then?
It’d be hard to claim that things haven’t moved on in the field of e-participation since we started out all those years ago. People now get what it’s about, realise it’s not just about ‘young people’, and are even getting … Continue reading
Posted in From Delib, News & thinking
Tagged data freedom, data security, dialogue app, internet security
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