Very late on Tuesday night I was asked a question on twitter – can you help get a government site up in short order? The question was prompted by this. GovSpark is a simply wonderful idea from 16 year old coder Isabell Long that emerged from Emma Mulqueeny’s Young Rewired State. Isabell wrote last month… …
Birmingham's new Big City Plan commentable site.
Birmingham city council is making great strides with the way it uses lightweight web tools (like wordpress) to communicate and create space for conversation. The first round of the Big City Plan consultation led to a group of us (led by Jon Bounds) producing Big City Plan Talk – an independent volunteer built site designed …
Stuff I've seen September 27th through to September 29th
These are my links for September 27th through September 29th: The Conservative Party | Get Involved | Social Action – This year's Social Action Project for the Conservative Party Conference will take place in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham. Can feed-in tariffs energise the Big Society?: New Start – Your blogs about what’s affecting …
Stuff I've seen September 11th through to September 27th
These are my links for September 11th through September 27th: Government Should Do its Own Data Homework | Jeni’s Musings – "….we need to work towards a virtuous cycle in which the public sector is rewarded for publishing useful data well. The reward may come from financial savings, from increasing data quality, from better delivery …