Tag Archives: slashgov

Rebooting America

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Dave

The Personal Democracy Forum has published a free eBook called Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age. It’s full of great little essays by such luminaries as David Weinberger, Clay Shirky, Howard Rheingold and Jeff Jarvis. … Continue reading →

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Communities in ‘Control’? Meh.

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Dave

On the day that the results of a poll in London reveal that, while one in four Londoners would like to be a local politician, hardly anyone knows anything about them or what they do, Hazel Blears has a piece … Continue reading →

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On consultation

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Dave

On Thursday night I was lucky enough to be invited to Number 11 for a few drinks with various online luminaries, including a bunch of guys who went on Web Mission 08 and lots of lovely government webbies too, courtesy … Continue reading →

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A New Civil Servant Blogger

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Dave

In what is, as far as I am aware, the first instance of  civil servant starting a blog because the new guidelines freed him up to do so, Mark O’Neill of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has begun … Continue reading →

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CivicSurf Trailer

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Dave

Shane has posted up a one minute trailer of the CivicSurf film on the project blog. [HTML1] It’s a nice taster of what is a great film (which I was lucky enough to see in full at the recent evoice … Continue reading →

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