Category Archives: E-Democracy

LocalGovCamp Lincoln

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Dave

Last Friday saw LocalGovCamp moving to Lincoln for the first of the follow up days. Learning Pool were happy to help out with some sponsorship of the event, which was marvelously organised and convened by Andrew Beeken of Lincoln City … Continue reading →

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Local e-petitions

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Dave

Headstar reported the other day about the progress of the piece of legislation that will mandate local authorities to set up systems allowing residents to create e-petitions, and to respond to such petitions. Under the ‘Local democracy, economic development and … Continue reading →

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FCO’s social media policies

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Dave

A great post from the FCO’s Stephen Hale reveals their digital diplomacy site. There is plenty of good stuff on there, but of particular interest to many will be the social media policy and guidance. Many thanks to Stephen and … Continue reading →

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Obama’s democracy

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Dave

Interesting paper from Delib on the approach to government taken by the Obama administration in the States: The reality has certainly been a lot more muted than most geeks would have liked. Nothing overly glam and technologically ground-breaking, but instead … Continue reading →

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Watch the whole of Us Now – now

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Dave

Us Now is “A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet” and it’s also rather good. Even better, you can now watch all 60 minutes of it. Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo. Once … Continue reading →

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