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eDemocracyBlog.com » eDemocracy Blog » Policy information and political accountability
Neil Williams has written an excellent post on the Government Digital Service blog about what constitutes a government policy and how the single gov.uk website (now in beta) should present information about it to citizens. The post sets out how the gov.uk team is using as a working definition of policy "statements of the government's position, intent or action". This … [Link]
Benchmarking e-government in web 2.0 » Do we need a EU Single Open Data License?
There is an interesting petition initiative, promoted via actuable.es, to promote a single open data license in the EU, building on the Spanish experience. I haven’t got into the details but it seems a logical and effective measure at first sight. I subscribed to it, what are your views? [Link]
Intellitics, Inc. » Top Posts January 2012
These were our three most popular posts in January: Response to White House Request for Input: What Are the Most Effective Web Tools for Public Participation? 2012 Event and Conference Radar What Is Public Participation? Thanks for following along, everyone! [Link]
DavePress » An online conference for online stuff
Here’s my latest wheeze: an entirely online conference to discuss digital government stuff. It’ll be free too. Here’s how things will run. There will be two sessions per day, three days a week over 2 weeks – so 12 in total. Right now I am thinking this will be between 7th and 18th May. Topics under discussion will be stuff … [Link]
DavePress » Covering events with Kind of Digital
One bit of work we’ve been doing a fair bit of at Kind of Digital is putting events on the web. One example is the seminar that took place in Leeds yesterday, run by Local Government Yorkshire and Humber. The idea is that these public service type events are all about getting the message to as many people as possible … [Link]
The Great E-mancipator » Open data manual
Whilst I’ve blogged more than 40 times on the subject of open data, I don’t believe I’ve covered the Open Data Manual. A hat-tip to jacques.raybaut at europa-eu-audience.typepad.com! The manual outlines what one should expect of open data, either presenting or using it. Coincidentally, the UK Government published the summary of the feedback on its open data consultation on the … [Link]
Intellitics, Inc. » Open Cologne
Possibly not of global relevance (yet), but since it is my home town I thought I’d give it a quick shout-out: Earlier today, Offenes Köln (Open Cologne) was officially announced. It’s a grassroots project by Marian Steinbach in Cologne, Germany that aims to make information, documents and data related to local government available (and accessible) to the general public by … [Link]
Intellitics, Inc. » New Report: “A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation”
Steven Clift just alerted me to a new report from the IBM Center for The Business of Government: A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation (PDF), authored by Tina Nabatchi, Syracuse University. I admit I haven’t fully read it yet, but a couple of issues jumped out that I wanted to point out really quick. 1) Terminology First off, I … [Link]
The Great E-mancipator » Ninging up York
With all the recent debate about e-participation, tools to do it, along with the why’s and wherefore’s of whether it can actually work, it’s a coincidence that the local authority where I live has implemented Ning to do some consultation. In the sites own words “GeniUSYork is our chance to generate and develop lots of ideas around about how to … [Link]
Benchmarking e-government in web 2.0 » Is “social computing” an old story?
I’ve been asked to give a talk on “Social Computing” to policy-makers and industry representatives here in Brussels. My first reaction, when preparing the presentation, has been: again? I have been presenting about what it is, how it matters, what to do about it for the last 6 years. Is it still an interesting subject? Can I go on repeating … [Link]
Intellitics, Inc. » Final Day IAP2 USA Membership Drive
As an IAP2 USA Board member, I would like to take a short moment to plug the membership drive we kicked off in October and which will end tomorrow, January 31, at midnight: IAP2 USA Fall Membership Campaign: $99 Deal, Good for 99 Days! I don’t have the latest numbers handy, but it looks like we’re getting very close to … [Link]
Intellitics, Inc. » We the People Conference Call
In case you’ve been following We the People (see our coverage), this upcoming conference call might be for you. From the IAP2 USA blog: We the People Follow-Up: February 1, 2012 Last October, we asked you to help us improve We the People, the new White House e-petition site. Collaborating with our partners, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation … [Link]
PEP-NET » SOPA, PIPA, ACTA: An achronym for Europe’s net community
Europeans who have felt left out in the past few weeks have now got their very own achronym to rally around. Hot on the heels of the successful campaign against SOPA (“Stop Online Piracy Act”) and PIPA (“Protect Intellectual Property Act”) comes ACTA (“Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement”). A secretly-negotiated deal to protect intellectual property would always be something for the net … [Link]
The Great E-mancipator » Up down under
In apparent contrast to the Pitney Bowes short study of UK users of e-government Australians are much more satisfied, to the extent that they prefer doing things online! The new Australians’ use and satisfaction with e-government services—2011 review makes an intersting comparison against the unwillingness of the 1000 Brits interviewed. One must of course assume the bias on either side … [Link]
eDemocracyBlog.com » eDemocracy Blog » Crowd-sourcing moves to the mainstream
There was an interesting debate on crowd-sourcing this week, held by the Institute for Government. Their video of the event is below, and I've also pulled out a few of the tweets from the event that raised some of the most interesting issues. For me the most remarkable thing about it was how mainstream the idea has become since the … [Link]
DavePress » Lloyd on GovCamp
The group blog collecting people’s thoughts is really good reading. Lloyd hits the nail on the head here: We do it this way because it works and because we’ve seen the alternative really fail big time again and again. Because it’s unusual for most of us and outside of our everyday experience, it’s tempting to make two mistakes. One is … [Link]
Intellitics, Inc. » SXSW 2012: Twenty Sessions for the E-Participator
It’s that time of year, and SXSW Interactive (that week-long mass pilgrimage of web, film, music and — for the first time this year with a conference track of their own — education innovators to beautiful Austin, TX) is almost around the corner. Since there’s a good chance I’ll make the trip out there yet once again, I thought I’d … [Link]
The Great E-mancipator » Rescuing policy
A hat-tip to Martin Woodrow at the Consultation Institute for the pointer to the following publication. From the Canadian Public Policy Forum comes “Rescuing Public Policy – the case for Public Engagement” (PDF 1.58 MB, 188 pages) by Dan Lenihan. The book is based upon Dan’s practical experience in the Public Engagement Project carried out in a number of Canadian … [Link]
DavePress » My 20 GovCamp 2012 thoughts
I had an exhausting time at GovCamp this weekend. We had lots of people. There were lots of discussions. There was much tweeting. Many photos were taken. Lots of blogging has happened. Dan Slee had the fab idea of just posting 20 quick thoughts and take-aways. So let’s have a (somewhat delayed) go. I don’t think the two day format … [Link]
mySociety » FixMyStreet – another big number
Image by PMC FirstPix Just a week after WhatDoTheyKnow’s big, round number, FixMyStreet also passed a significant milestone. 200,000 reports have been sent through FixMyStreet since its launch in February 2007. It currently sends an average of 250+ messages about potholes, broken streetlights, and other problems to local authorities each day. So far this month, we’ve processed just over 5,000 … [Link]
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