Today we’re publishing our Learning Report for Digital Participatory Budgeting in Scotland. Background We are working with the Scottish Government and a wider group of organisations, helping councils and communities to set up and run participatory budgeting in their communities. Participatory budgeting is a way for communities to decide how money is spent – proposing […]
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Digital Democracy Potentialism: A Speech for the Speaker’s Digital Democracy Commission
Back in September I was asked by the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy to speak in Sheffield at an event co-hosted by the Commission and Sheffield University’s Digital Society Network. You can see a Storify of the event here. I was speaking on a rather large panel with: Helen Milner, Digital Democracy Commissioner; Natalie Bennett, Green Party Leader; Yael Shafritz, […]
Checklist for an ideal digital policy engagement campaign
This post, by Stephen Hale of the Department of Health, originally appeared on his Health Conversations blog. A few weeks ago, I sat down with some of the DH digital team, to talk about digital policy engagement, and how we would like to do it in an ideal world. Over a couple of hours, powered by a […]
Time to try something new
This is an edited version of a post that appeared earlier this week at helpfultechnology.com Things will be tight in the public sector – and local government especially – in 2013. So far, so Mystic Meg. I don’t underestimate the effort required by the brave souls who, unlike me, are still in public service, just […]