Last week I flew to Budapest to take part in the International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. 3 days of hotel air-conditioning and PowerPoint presentations. Joy. Griff Wigley and a few others kept a blog through the event and I hope to be able to contribute to it soon. It Read more…
I’m off next Wednesday to Budapest for the eDemocracy Symposium. Apparently there is a good turnout expected with over 300 delegates booked. I doubt they will all turn up to hear me speak about using new technology to reach out to new young people but as I’m sharing the platform Read more…
LifeSwap has achieved some form of national recognition with an article in today’s SocietyGuardian covering the event. The article is extremely positive and sums up the advantages of the event far better than I can, but essentially it says that it changes attitudes by bringing councillors and young people closer Read more…
It put a huge smile on my face when Cumbria County Council phoned us up today to say that they want to participate in I’m a Councillor, Get me out of here, and that they’ve had 66 schools interested in taking part, out of which they had to choose 20.