Tag Archives: e-consultation

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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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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Five useful links for the new look NHS

I speak to a lot of health care professionals about stakeholder engagement. The overwhelming problem faced by many in the NHS is the new engagement strategies needed by the GP Consortiums. I’ve gathered some helpful links to assist those re-thinking … Continue reading

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How our apps link into IAP2 Spectrum of public participation

Having worked with a number of global clients including NAPA in America and DFC in South Australia, we are particularly interested in learning how our current and future clients can use our apps to inform IAP2 (International Association of Public … Continue reading

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Five interesting pieces of digital democracy news for people working in Local Government

1) Guidance – best value consultation + communities Just released: guidance from Communities and Local Government on Best Value Duty. This document provides guidance on how authorities can work with voluntary and community groups and small businesses when facing funding … Continue reading

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Using RDFa to create a Google Calendar

Part of what we like to do in Delib is demonstrate how easy it can be explore to Linked Data and get more engagement from a public consultation process. I’ve just spent an hour or so playing around with the … Continue reading

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What is consultations.gov.uk?

I was Googling ‘Online Consultation’ today, and came across consultations.gov.uk referenced in a Wikipedia article.  It’s down. Anyone know what it is, or what it was?  Seems like a waste of a good domain name to me.

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The 3 layers of online consultation

We’re a big fan of the concept of *government as a participative platform* – the idea that government should act partly as a *facilitating platform* to enable both citizens and government to work together to improve decision-making and solve problems. … Continue reading

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Local Authorities In Not Adopting e-Petitions Shocker

So, the entirely predictable news is out that over 2/3rds of UK Local Authorities haven’t complied with the law to provide an e-petitioning system which came into force last december. I was in two minds about this when the law … Continue reading

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What Should e-Consultation Training Include?

We’ve just blogged on what we think training in an e-consultation system should include over on the Citizen Space blog, and concluded it should be so much more than just being about the system itself. What do you think?

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