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Category Archives: egovernment
Local Authority Audit of Online Consultation
Bristolian eDemocracy dudes Delib have published their audit of local authority online consultation offerings across the UK. Delib – Local Authority Audit of Online Consultation It’s interesting reading. Personally, I’m still not convinced I really know what proper consultation looks … Continue reading
Posted in E-Democracy, egovernment
Tagged consultation, decision making, delib, engagement, local government, localgov
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LocalGovCamp Lincoln
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
Posted in E-Democracy, Events, egovernment
Tagged lgclincoln, local government, localgovcamp, opensocitm
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FCO’s social media policies
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
Posted in E-Democracy, Social Media, egovernment
Tagged fco, foreign office, government, guidance, Social Media, stephen hale
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Teach us a Lesson
I’ve been working with BIS and Becta quite a bit recently on the Learning Revolution project, which is all about improving access to informal adult learning – that is, learning which doesn’t generally mean a qualification. So, stuff like book … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Social Media, egovernment
Tagged becta, bis, learning revolution, show us a better way, teach us a lesson
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Young Rewired State
As pointed out by Nick.
Posted in Video, egovernment
Tagged civic hacking, data, government, rewired state, young people
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Co-creating an open declaration on public services 2.0
An email from my friend Paul Johnston – he’s a Cisco public sector specialist and is behind the rather neat Connected Republic site – alerts me to EUPS 2.0 initiative. Here’s how it is explained: Every two years, EU Ministers … Continue reading
It’s Andrew Stott!
So, the announcement has been made, and the new Director of Digital Engagement is Andrew Stott. Andrew is currently Government Deputy Chief Information Officer. He has had director-level oversight within the Cabinet Office for the Power of Information work from … Continue reading
The importance of evaluation
Stephen Hale at the FCO has an excellent, interesting and important post about measuring the success of the London G20 Summit site. With wonderful openness and transparency, Stephen has set out some of the factors by which the site’s success … Continue reading
Posted in E-Democracy, egovernment
Tagged consultation, engagement, evaluation, Social Media
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Real Help Now
Simon Dickson reports on the new site from the UK Government which currently aggregates news from around the country on what help is available to help businesses and individuals through the current economic difficulties. Fundamentally, in this initial build, it’s … Continue reading
Blogging Tsar
The advert is up for the UK government’s Director of Digital Engagement. It looks like an exciting role with stacks of potential. Steph has already started to crowd source what it is that whoever gets the job should start doing. … Continue reading