The Participation Company
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 website for UK Government, developed in line with the recommendations of Martha Lane-Fox’s Review. The site is a demonstration, and whilst it’s [...]
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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 Guardian: [...] But another ambitious idea about how best to harness the power of the internet has also been dropped. The Tories announced a competition last [...]
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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 on the commitment the sponsoring organization has made, their promise to the public. I couldn’t find anything on the website (on a side note, it’s [...]
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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 agenda for the next few years). The site went live on May 20, 2010 and stayed open for feedback for about three weeks, during [...]
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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 touches upon three important concepts (great analysis, make sure to read it in full): Asking the right questions Collaborative brainstorming Objective-driven public participation I [...]
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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) Consider Ignore Decide Obviously, this is not good practice as it violates a number of public participation principles (mainly, you don’t ask [...]
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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 the UK Conservative party promised to offer a £1m cash prize to a person or team that creates an online platform that can be [...]
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