The UK and Ireland e-Democracy exchange mailing list has recently reached a membership milestone of 100 members. The group consists of many if not most of the more vocal members of the e-Democracy community in these parts. It was originally set-up by Steven Clift and is currently hosted by Tom Read more
David Miliband tells in his blog how India: "now plans devolution beyond the 29 states to local government, where he explained that some 3 million people are elected councillors, over one million of them women (more elected women than the rest of the world put together)" Fabulous statistics. I wonder Read more
Richard Pope has released a Beta version of a site I’ve wanted to produce for a while. www.planningalerts.com uses planning application data published by local councils to alert people to planning application within a specified radius of their home (or other postcode they specify). The radius can be checked on Read more
Cllr Martin Mullaney from Moseley and Kings Heath Ward, Birmingham has a thing with taggers. He has recently made a film about the tagging on a sports pavilion in his ward and posted it to YouTube. Amazingly it has had over 2000 views and over 200 comments mostly from taggers Read more
…which almost never last past January. Instead I’ve got a new job, working full time for Gallomanor, which means changing nearly everything in my life, so who needs resolutions to create change? I’ve been freelancing for Gallomanor off and on for three years. My main job during that time has Read more
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