A link from the Guardian TechBlog led me to spend 20 minutes watching a video of the most captivating speaker I’ve seen in a long while. He was speaking at TED2006. Visit here to view the videos. Hans Rosling is a Swedish Professor in World Health and a Founder of Read more…
We wish you a Fizzy Christmas. In a belated moment of Christmas Cheer we have sent out some bottles of Champagnes to the winners of the draws in the surveys we have run recently. The winners were: ICELE Recruitment Survey – Tim Anderson of Norfolk County CouncilI’m a Councillor Council Read more…
Today was the turn of Brighton and Hove City Council to take part in LifeSwap. The photos are still coming in thick and fast at 8.45pm as the Council folk head home and into late meetings and the young people head out to the bars and clubs of Brighton. The Read more…
It seems that CampaignCreator has won the EuroCities Participation award for Bristol City Council.
mySociety, famed for eDemocracy sites such as Pledgebank and theyworkforyou.com, have developed an open source online petition service for the 10 Downing Street site (http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/). It will be interesting to see how well it gets used. It’s been launched as a Beta site so should change over the coming weeks Read more…
Well, I’m a Councillor 2006 has now finished. It’s been our best year yet and we’ve had an absolute ball. A list of our winning councillors is up on the site here. Congratulations to all our worthy winners, commiserations to the evicted councillors and a big thank you to everyone Read more…
Well it’s been a gruelling couple of weeks for the councillors (and those of us working behind the scenes too! No, no, it’s fine, we don’t want sympathy, we do it for the love of democracy. I seem to remember). But hopefully an interesting, entertaining and inspiring one for the Read more…
Students in Coleraine were first to hear about progress in the NI Devolution talks today. During a Live Chat session Cllr John Dallat who was attending the talks in St.Andrews broke into the conversation to say: Cllr John Dallat: Peter – Good News Peter as we speak a settlement has Read more…
I often tell people, when I’m talking about I’m a Councillor, that it’s definitely a two way thing. It’s not just about young people learning more about local democracy (as if they are empty vessels that just need filling up by clever grown-up). It’s also about local democracy (in the Read more…
"Once elected, the job of an MP is to represent the people of his or her constituency (constituents) in Parliament, whether or not they voted for him or her."Factsheet M1 Members Series Revised October 2005 "My job as an Labour MP is to support the Labour Government and work for Read more…