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Category Archives: democracy
Government Digital Service blog, and e-petitions
The new Government Digital Service, the part of the Cabinet Office tasked with taking forward various elements of the digital agenda in Whitehall (and beyond) has a new blog. Very nice it is too, and anyone with an interest in … Continue reading
Crowd sourcing ideas with WordPress
For a customer, we at Kind of Digital have been putting together a prototype system using WordPress to crowdsource ideas from the public. We’ve done plenty of reading about previous attempts at this sort of thing, and hopefully have avoided … Continue reading
Micro-participation project
We’re starting an open innovation-y project at Kind of Digital about micro-participation. Do get involved!
Micro-participation at ShropCamp
Continuing my current obsession with micro-participation, I ran a session on the subject at yesterday’s excellent ShropCamp. Basically I chatted through what micro-participation is and what it tries to achieve, where it came from etc. Then I gave some examples … Continue reading
Modern Councillor Webinar, 21 April 2011
With the elections on May 5 just around the corner for both English and Scottish councils, Dave and I’ll will be holding a free webinar to showcase Learning Pool’s relaunched Modern Councillor service. Modern Councillor is the online learning and support … Continue reading
