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News and thinking about digital democracy

G-Cloud take home thoughts from the second Tea Camp

This weekend will see the announcement of the names of more than 300 suppliers who have been successfully added to the G-Cloud Framework. In light of this exciting news, the second Tea Camp held yesterday at the National Audit Office … Continue reading

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Delib’s Digital Democracy Canada Tour – #DDCan

We’re excited to announce that as part of our growing global presence and general *digital democracy love sharing* we’re doing a mini-tour of Canada at the end of the February. Partly inspired by our recent awesome work with British Columbia … Continue reading

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An interview with Alison Michalk – Delib’s Australian moderation guru

As a company we’re very focused on developing the best online engagement technology possible.  And our internal skill-sets reflect that, in that we’re mostly a team of geeks  Because of this we’ve developed a whole host of awesome partners to … Continue reading

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Future of Stakeholder Engagement in the NHS

Here at Delib we like change, and we like democracy. With the NHS arguably experiencing it’s greatest overhaul since it’s conception in 1948, I thought I would share some ideas for engaging patients and other stakeholders in 2012. The NHS … Continue reading

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What’s Awesome About GOV.UK

The UK government have just launched launched the beta of their GOV.UK site, which is the first step towards creating a single website for information on public services and will eventually replace Directgov, which launched in 2004. The beta stage … Continue reading

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5 Interesting Links about Police Authorities and Elected Commissioners

Police Authorities are going through an era of unprecedented change, and the challenges faced by those working within them are numerous.  Ever since the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill was first announced people inside and outside authorities have been … Continue reading

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How Young People Use The Internet

In 2007, I was interviewed by a colleague in order to compile a blog post on ‘How Teenagers Use The Internet.’ It effectively served as my response to an article making the rounds at the time: a briefing paper on … Continue reading

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Gov Camp 2012 – 15 take home pointers

GovCamp 2012 was awesome. With two days of packed and uber interesting un-conference style talks, coupled with an opportunity to talk to and debate with a whole host of varied people, the event was truly worth working on a Saturday … Continue reading

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Tips on how to develop up your online engagement capacity

When you’ve been used to running all your engagement processes in a more traditional way – for example, town hall meetings and postal surveys – the idea of *going virtual*, and starting to run online engagement exercises can be quite … Continue reading

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An interview with Delib’s new Australian consultant: Verne

It’s always nice to welcome new people into the Delib family. The most recent addition to our Australian team is Verne Krastins – an extremely experienced engagement consultant based in Victoria, and a keen guitarist (which is obviously of equal … Continue reading

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