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Time for revolution rather than evolution?
At heart, I’m an evolutionary, softly-softly kind of digital person, so I instinctively disapproved of chunks of Martha’s report. But even I can appreciate that, amid the destruction GOV.UK has wrought amongst the websites of Whitehall, there are some breathtaking … Continue reading
Fixing consultation
Interesting news today from the Cabinet Office, who issued their three-page Consultation Principles (embedded below), with the accompanying explanation: The Government is improving the way it consults by adopting a more proportionate and targeted approach, so that the type and … Continue reading
A vision for engagement and participation online
Neil has blogged some thoughts and slides on digital engagement that he worked on with Simon Dickson and me, on the fringes of the Alphagov project. (Literally the fringes, we were sat round a forlorn a set of pedestal drawers, … Continue reading
Would you like sauce with your policy?
On balance, today was a good day for more progressive approaches to online consultation by government. The BIS team were out of the blocks early with a nice little consultation site for the proposed changes to parental leave which explains … Continue reading
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Tagged bis, consultation, DCMS, digital engagement, george osborne, open source policymaking
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ConsultationXML goes open source
As Harry’s explained over on The Dextrous Web, we’ve just open sourced the code behind ConsultationXML, the tool we’ve been working on which turns consultation PDF files into XML. It’s a 0.1 release so still full of bugs, but at … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Featured
Tagged #ukgovoss, consultation, Development, Government, harry metcalfe, open source, xml
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Freeing data, reducing pain
At Barcamp on Saturday, Harry Metcalfe of TellThemWhatYouThink and I presented some work we’ve been doing to build a web application which makes it easier to turn PDF versions of consultation documents into structured XML. Before you click on to … Continue reading
Introducing Commentariat & the POI Taskforce Report
I’ve written before about the perennial problem of publishing documents online for comment. The solutions either seem to be clunky, laborious to setup or use, or problematically inaccessible to users without Javascript. The problem remains, but there’s an extra option … Continue reading
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Tagged comments, consultation, Development, social media, WordPress
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New Opportunities
The challenge for ‘government 2.0 sites’ (a phrase I feel slightly dirty for using) which aim to engage beyond the core stakeholder audience, is to come up with an experience which fits with the content of the policy, builds credibility … Continue reading
2009: The year of Less
I’m not going to store up humiliation for myself by posting predictions or New Year’s resolutions for ’09, but from where I’m sitting, I’d say the big theme will be Less. And I’m not being entirely pessimistic. It goes more … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, consultation, Government, networks, participation, predictions, social media, strategy, suppliers, training
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What do you want from me? 7 alternatives to ‘Leave a comment’
Think back to you last digital engagement project outside Facebook. What did you ask people for? Chances are, you asked for a ‘comment’. Maybe a ‘reply’. ‘Feedback’, perhaps. A handful of you might have requested a ‘submission’. That’s not necessarily … Continue reading →