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e-Democracy - United Kingdom
Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to e-Democracy in the United Kingdom.
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- e-Campaigning - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about e-campaigning by government in the United Kingdom.
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- Articles and resources about e-voting and e-counting of votes by government in the United Kingdom.
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- Articles and resources about trends and issues in voter registration in the United Kingdom.
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- Articles and resources about the use of webcasting by politicians to reach their constituents in the United Kingdom.
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- e-Democracy: A-K - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to e-democracy in the United Kingdom.
Added: 13 December 2005
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- e-Democracy: L-Z - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to e-democracy in the United Kingdom.
Added: 13 December 2005
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- Hansard Society, United Kingdom - Archive
- A report from the Hansard Society Commission on Parliament in the Public Eye was published in May 2005, making strong suggestions that the palace of Westminster should improve its websites.
Added: 24 November 2005
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- Government reveals cost of e-petitions
- Public Technology, 1 December 2011. "Who says there's not a price to pay for democracy? The e-petitions website, set up to build confidence in the British democratic process, will cost around £180,000 over the next three years, the leader of the House of Commons told MPs yesterday.."
Added: 8 December 2011;
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- e-petitions: the first 100 days
- by Peter Herlihy. Government Digital Service, 15 November 2011. "Last Saturday marked 100 days since the new e-petitions service was launched by GDS and the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons. The service continues to be incredibly popular -on average 18 people have signed an e-petition every minute since the service started. e-petitions also maintains a very high social and mainstream media profile, with significant television and press coverage, especially when a petition nears or reaches the 100,000 signatures threshold required to trigger a debate in Parliament..."
Added: 17 November 2011;
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- MPs going wobbly on e-petitions?
- Posted by John Lamb. Public Technology, 7 November 2011. "MPs may be at odds with the public over how legislation proposed in e-petitions is actually handled in the House of Commons..."
Added: 10 November 2011;
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- E-petitions exclude millions, says Euro MP
- By Matthew D'Arcy. publicservice.co.uk, 9 September 2011. "An MEP has fired new criticisms at the government's e-petitions system just hours after she hand delivered a paper based petition to Downing Street with 100,000 signatures calling for a referendum on the UK leaving the European Union..."
Added: 15 September 2011;
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- e-petitions - create and sign petitions online
- UK Government. "e-petitions is an easy way for you to influence government policy in the UK. You can create an e-petition about anything that the government is responsible for and if it gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be eligible for debate in the House of Commons..."
Added: 8 September 2011;
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- E-democracy thwarted by Parliamentary procedure
- Posted by John Lamb. Public Technology, 7 September 2011. "MPs are still struggling to adapt the House of Commons rulebook to accommodate this new-fangled e-democracy stuff..."
Added: 8 September 2011;
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- e-petitions – the Second Week
- by Mark O'Neill. Government Digital Service, 16 August 2011. "We launched the ability to sign petitions on the e-petitions site at noon on Thursday 4th August. And it is fair to say that it has been far more popular than we ever expected. The site has had over 2 million visitors since launch, over 12 million page views, 12,000 petitions raised, 700,000 signatures collected and the first petition hit 100,000 signatures (now over 200,000) in 5 days..."
Added: 18 August 2011;
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- Online petitions go live on Directgov
- Directgov e-petitions could provide public 'megaphone', says Leader of Commons. Guardian Government Computing - Guardian Professional, Friday 29 July 2011. "A new public e-petitions service has gone live on the Directgov portal, replacing the previous e-petitions system on the Downing Street website. The new website went live on 29 July and is being operated by the Government Digital Service. The government said that public petitions which secure the backing of 100,000 signatures will be eligible for debate in Parliament..."
Added: 3 August 2011;
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- Analysis of users and usage for UK Citizens Online Democracy - in pdf format (1635kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). by Tobias Escher, MySociety, May 2011. This report was commissioned by UK Citizens Online Democracy as part of an evaluation of the major mySociety websites... "TheyWorkForYou is a website, launched in 2004, that provides detailed information on members of parliament (including their voting behaviour and expenses) as well as parliamentary proceedings such as debates. It covers the Westminster and the Scottish parliaments as well as the Northern Ireland Assembly. In 2006 it officially became a mySociety project... Data on users is derived from a user survey conducted between October 2009 and March 2010. Due to the nature of the site it was not possible to collect information from a representative sample of users. The data therefore can only be taken as indicative of broad trends..."
Added: 27 July 2011;
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- Councils miss e-petitions requirement
- Local authorities in England are failing to meet a mandatory requirement to provide an e-petitions facility on their websites. Guardian Government Computing, Wednesday 9 February 2011. "Public sector organisation Socitm has made the claim in advance of the publication of its annual Better Connected report, which examines the state of UK councils' websites..."
Added: 10 February 2011;
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- Electoral digitisation won't 'exclude'
- publicservice.co.uk, Thursday, December 2, 2010. "Digital electoral developments will not have a negative impact on the democratic rights of those without access to the internet, constitutional reform minister Mark Harper has confirmed..."
Added: 6 December 2010;
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- E-petitions to Labour will be re-examined
- Public Technology, 14 June 2010. "E-petitions sent in by UK citizens that the last government hadn't responded to before it fell will be examined by the new coalition government after all..."
Added: 15 June 2010;
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- Listening to communities: Statutory guidance on the duty to respond to petitions
- Department of Communities and Local Government, 30 March 2010. "The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 aims to reinvigorate local democracy by placing local authorities on the front line of ensuring local citizens connect with local decision makers. This statutory guidance follows a 12 week consultation that closed on 24 February 2010 and takes forward one strand of this policy. It sets out the key principles and requirements of the petitions duty, which requires local authorities to create a scheme for responding to the petitions they receive, and to comply with that scheme..."
Added: 7 April 2010;
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- Powerful petitions with real teeth set to bite
- Department of Communities and Local Government, 29 March 2010. "Local people can now demand their councils take action on underperforming schools and hospitals, drink disorder, anti-social behaviour and other concerns under new rules giving real power to local petitions, announced Communities Secretary John Denham today. The Government announced today that it has put in place the legal steps to bring into force on June 15 a statutory duty on councils so they have to respond to petitions for the first time and tell local people what action is going to be taken to address their concerns..."
Added: 7 April 2010;
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- Listening to communities: Government response to the consultation on draft statutory guidance on the duty to respond to petitions
- Department of Communities and Local Government, 30 March 2010. "The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 aims to reinvigorate local democracy by placing local authorities on the front line of ensuring local citizens connect with local decision makers. This document is the Governments response to the consultation on the draft statutory guidance on the duty which closed on 24 February 2010..."
Added: 7 April 2010;
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This category last updated: 8 December 2011
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