Tag Archives: your freedom

Another Outcome From The #yourfreedom Dialogue

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Gez Smith

It’s been interesting to see just how much criticism has emerged over the last few months of the ‘Your Freedom’ national dialogue the government ran using our Dialogue App. Some of it’s contained some interesting ideas for how things could … Continue reading →

Posted in From Delib, From other people, News & thinking | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment |

UK Govcamp 2011 – A live blog

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Gez Smith

UPDATE 16:30 (from Robin) 2 more action packed sessions! First up was a discussion on using WordPress in government, showcasing the new DEFRA website with WP 3.0 multi-site implementation. Second was an excellent talk on Open Data where I was … Continue reading →

Posted in From Delib, From other people, Heroic stuff we admire, News & thinking | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment |

Bristol Open Data Hack Day Kicks Off

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Gez Smith

So here we all are at the Colston Hall for the open data hack day we’re putting on in conjunction with Bristol City Council. There’s a great atmosphere in the room, the event sold out and we’ve just come up … Continue reading →

Posted in Code & Tech Stuff, From Delib, From other people, How Delib gets stuff done | Tagged , , | Leave a comment |

Delib on BBC Radio Newcastle

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Gez Smith

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 →

Posted in From Delib | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment |

‘is [Your Freedom] the silliest new govt website or the most inspired?’

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Gez Smith

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 →

Posted in From other people | Tagged , , , , , , | 7 Comments |

Looking after ‘Your Freedom’ site as it’s strained by intense demand

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Gez Smith

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 →

Posted in From Delib, From other people | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment |

What Twitter is saying about ‘Your Freedom’

Posted on July 1, 2010 by RobinG

Unsurprisingly, the launch of http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/ has been accompanied by a significant amount of Twitter activity, with people talking about the site’s existence, sharing ‘interesting’ ideas and making known their feelings about both the process and the site.  So far, there … Continue reading →

Posted in From Delib | Tagged , , | Leave a comment |

Spreading Freedom with widgets

Posted on July 1, 2010 by RobinG

Within a few hours of the Your Freedom dialogue/crowd-sourcing site launching, we’re already seeing the ideas being distributed on sites via widgets. Here are a couple that we particularly like: @lesteph – Build your own Widget http://ht2.helpfultechnology.com/yourwidget/ props to @lesteph … Continue reading →

Posted in Code & Tech Stuff, Tips & tricks to help you | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment |

Great Reform Act 2.0 is GO!

Posted on July 1, 2010 by ChrisQ

Some political ideas just make sense. And the Coalition’s Great Reform Act 2.0 (or “Your Freedom” as it’s officially called) is one of those. I was lucky enough to be invited along to the launch event this morning (at the … Continue reading →

Posted in From Delib | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments |