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Articles and resources about trends and issues in community and citizen engagement initiatives by government in the United Kingdom.
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- Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales to advise government on tech policy
- Wales will be helping the government open up policy-making to the public, By Derek du Preez, Computerworld UK, March 12, 2012. "Jimmy Wales, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, is set to advise Whitehall on how it can use technology to shape policy-making going forward. Wikipedia is a hugely successful not-for-profit online encyclopaedia that was established in 2000 by Wales and Larry Sanger..."
Added: 14 March 2012;
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- Civil servants urged to friend citizens
- An Irishwoman is working to convince the UK’s civil servants – whose daily mantra is managing risk within a very controlled culture – to embrace their inner tweeter, writes Karlin Lillington. The Irish Times, Friday, February 3, 2012. "In her role as the UK government's deputy director of digital engagement for Government Digital Services – kind of the grand poobah of social media – Emer Coleman tells an Irish audience that the job is about turning the cautious instincts of government upside down. 'We're trying to move from a model of command and control to one of public engagement,' she says, speaking at Eircom's All-Ireland eGovernment Symposium in Dublin last week. 'Once you say something, it's out there – the media has it anyway, and we're all in a conversation.'..."
Added: 8 February 2012;
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- Tell Us How - UK Government making public services better for everyone
- UK Cabinet Office. "All public sector workers, from nurses, to those working in job centres, local Government, or vital back office functions are all being given a chance to have their say by logging onto the new Tell us How website and putting forward suggestions on how to deliver public services: - Quicker: by removing unnecessary tasks to save time and money; - Cheaper: by finding new ways to reduce cost and eliminate waste; - Simpler: by simplifying business processes and removing duplication.... The ideas submitted by public sector workers will be assessed by a team in the Cabinet Office. The best ideas will be taken forward by the department or authority responsible, which might be the frontline organisation itself, or could be the department responsible for that area..."
Added: 31 October 2011;
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- How Norfolk County Council used Twitter to show a human face
- by James Taylor. Government Digital Service, 19 October 2011. "One of the Digital Engagement team’s responsibilities is to encourage the use of social media by Government, engaging citizens directly in how their services are run. When we read Susie Lockwood's post (via Dan Slee's excellent blog) on how her team at Norfolk County Council used Twitter, Storify and Audioboo to cover a working day for a wide range of Council employees, we thought it was an excellent example of the possibilities these tools offer to give the public a meaningful insight into what it takes to deliver services..."
Added: 25 October 2011;
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- Twitter and Facebook is a two-way street, says Information Commissioner
- Posted by John Lamb. Public Technology, September 30, 2011. "Public sector organisations that use Twitter and Facebook cannot complain when citizens use the same social media to ask for information. That was the message from Information Commissioner Christopher Graham in a speech marking ‘International Right to Know Day 2011’ and posted, social media stylee, on, of course, YouTube..."
Added: 3 October 2011;
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- Blogging, tweeting and social entrepreneurship: the new councillor
- Just 6% of voters can name their local councillor. Keith Mitchell suggests new ways to break the anonymity barrier, by Cllr Keith R Mitchell, for the Guardian Professional Networks. Guardian Professional, Friday 15 July 2011. "I fear Britain has created a dependency culture where we expect someone else to solve every problem, whether it is graffiti, litter, anti-social behaviour or social care. Liam Byrne reminded us in his famous note that "there's no money left". We need to persuade people to take more responsibility for themselves, their neighbourhoods and their neighbours. It is not just a financial issue; government, whether national or local, simply cannot micro-manage communities. Individuals within in communities can provide leadership and example and can help people to help themselves..."
Added: 18 July 2011;
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- DotGovLabs opens to public
- Potential innovators no longer need invite to contribute to Cabinet Office digital innovation hub, by Ben Whitelaw. Guardian Professional, Wednesday 29 June 2011. "A development hub set up to find innovative digital solutions to public service problems has been made open to the public. DotGovLabs, run by the Cabinet Office's 'skunkworks' team, can now be accessed by anyone, as opposed to by invite only. The project involves crowdsourcing ideas from innovators from outside government to explore ways of making more efficient and transparent systems..."
Added: 30 June 2011;
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- A vision for online consultation and policy engagement
- by Neil Williams. Alpha.gov.uk team blog, 24 May 2011. "This is a short post about a huge topic: what government should do to consult, engage and involve people more openly in the work it does, online. Consultation is a big part of government. Doing it better online is a coalition commitment. Alphagov's vision would be incomplete without addressing it head on. But in scoping what user-centric consultation in a single domain might look like, it soon became clear that building a working demo without first building consensus and capability in Whitehall for mass scale open dialogue would be somewhat jumping the gun..."
Added: 27 May 2011;
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- Red Tape Challenge
- UK Cabinet Office. "... This website is for you to tell us which regulations are working and which are not; what should be scrapped, what should be saved and what should be simplified. Every few weeks we're publishing the regulations affecting one specific sector or industry – from retail to hospitality to construction. And throughout the process we’re publishing the general regulations that cut across all sectors – from rules on equality to those on employment. All these regulations will be open for your comments..."
Added: 7 April 2011;
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- Government crowdsourcing to cut red tape
- Posted by Jon Wilcox. Public Technology, 7 April 2011. "The Government has today launched its latest crowdsourcing exercise, this time one that aims to cut some of the 21,000 rules getting in the way of the public, businesses, and community organisations. The Red Tape challenge campaign aims to give the public the chance to speak about the regulations affecting their lives, and will cover several themes including retail, road transportation, and manufacturing... "
Added: 7 April 2011;
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- Connecting Communities - the impact of broadband on communities in the UK and its implications for Australia
- huawei.com.au, January 2011. "Connecting Communities is a groundbreaking review of the community benefits and innovation enabled by broadband in the UK and the policy implications for Australia. Commissioned by Huawei Australia but independently researched and compiled by Dr Tim Williams, Connecting Communities is based on a wealth of case-studies, interviews and analysis combined with a sharp personal insight. The report offers compelling real life evidence of the impact of broadband – on public services, democratic activity, and on communities themselves. Its conclusion that 'broadband is too important to be left to geeks and engineers' and that the objective should be to build not just a network but a 'networked society' will provoke debate. The author also hopes to promote and inspire engagement and discourse between Australian businesses, industry groups, Government and, of course, communities themselves..."
Added: 24 February 2011;
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- Protection of Freedoms Bill - Public Reading Stage
- UK Cabinet Office. "On Friday 11th February 2011, the Coalition Government published the Protection of Freedoms Bill. This Bill brings together a raft of measures to restore hard-won British liberties that have been lost in recent years. Some of the measures came from the 14,000 ideas left on the Your Freedom website. The Government is committed to continuing this public engagement with the content of the Protection of Freedoms Bill. This website gives you the opportunity to comment on each clause contained in the Bill. Your comments will get collated at the end of this public consultation and fed through directly to the Parliamentarians who will carry the Bill through the House of Commons..."
Added: 24 February 2011;
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- Big Society: opening up Parliament to the people
- Cabinet Office, News Release, 15 February 2011. "The Coalition Government has today launched the first stage of plans to give members of the public the right to comment on every aspect of new legislation, putting people at the heart of the legislative process. From today, through a new pilot public reading stage, members of the public will be able to comment on each clause of the Protection of Freedoms Bill, which was published last week..."
Added: 24 February 2011;
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- Citizen Space
- "Citizen Space has been developed as a collaborative project between the UK Government and digital democracy company Delib, and has been designed to help government departments to run their consultation processes more efficiently and effectively... Key objectives that Citizen Space has been designed to address include: Manage and organise multiple consultations across multiple policy teams; Share consultation information openly in a structured way; Make it easy to create online consultations on complex policy documents; Provide a way to easily analyse consultation data (both qualitative and quantitative); Provide a central space to manage/track responses- whether it's online responses or postal responses..."
Added: 23 November 2010;
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- Cabinet Office starts review of procurement and digital engagement strategy
- Role of Directgov, number of web sites and IT procurement under scrutiny, By Anh Nguyen. Computerworld UK, 10 November 2010. "The Cabinet Office has started a review of its overall digital engagement strategy. The move is outlined in the Cabinet Office's four-year business plan, published on the Number10.gov.uk, site and is one of 17 documents defining government departments' strategies until 2015. The publications are part of the prime minister David Cameron’s efforts to establish a more transparent government..."
Added: 11 November 2010;
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