Crowdsourcing and Public Participation II
Richard Fahey has a detailed post up about an interesting crowdsourcing idea that has been proposed by the Conservative Party in the UK: £1m prize for citizen participation platform Earlier this week...
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Did the UK Spending Challenge Fall Victim to SCID?
I had heard of the DAD acronym before (decide, announce, defend) but was unaware of SCID until it came up during training last week. Here’s what SCID stands for: Solicit (ask stakeholders for input)...
View ArticleBrainstorming Policy Ideas Online: We’re Not There Yet!
Doing a bit of research on Spending Challenge the other night, Stephen Whitehead alerted me to his excellent post on the subject: Three lessons from the Treasury’s Spending Challenge fiasco The article...
View ArticleProgramme for Government Online Consultation
Shortly after the newly-elected coalition government in the UK took office this past May, they launched a website that invited the public to comment on their Programme for Government (their policy...
View ArticleProgramme for Government Consultation: What Was the Promise to the Public?
Following up on my earlier post, I was trying to find out how exactly the Programme for Government online consultation had been announced when it launched. When evaluating consultations, a lot depends...
View ArticleUK Citizen Participation Platform Shelved
Looks like the Citizen Participation Platform, an idea introduced by the UK Conservative party during the campaign there earlier this year, won’t happen anytime soon. According to this report in The...
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Consultation Directory At Alpha.gov.uk
Earlier today, a new UK government site launched which I’m sure will be very much worth watching. From the about page: What is Alpha.gov.uk? Alpha.gov.uk is an experimental prototype of a new, single...
View ArticleUpcoming GDS Online Discussion on Online Consultations
The Government Digital Service (GDS), a new team within the UK Cabinet Office whose mission is to transform government digital services, is inviting participation in a conversation about online...
View ArticleUK Open Policymaking Discussion Launched
As was announced last month, Open Policymaking – a discussion around “open policymaking and better consultation”, hosted by The Democratic Society – is now under way. From the inaugural blog post:...
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