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The first Kind of Digital webchat went really well, with twenty people online in total and at least half of those contributing during the conversation. Not bad at all for a first go. The subject of the chat was how the web can help promote local democracy amongst citizens and communities. You can download a rather basically formatted... [read more]
As an auditorium filled with people began typing, tweeting, blogging, Facebooking, texting and sharing, you knew it was the start of another Personal Democracy Forum. The conference is so heavily live-tweeted, that this year the hashtag (which is used on Twitter to signify the topic of a given tweet) #pdf11, became a nationally... [read more]
Yesterday evening I watched an interesting TED talk by Eli Pariser, Beware online "filter bubbles". The talk discussed the increasing personalisation of search engines, news sites and social networks, using algorithms to selectively present or hide search results, content and comments based on a user's actions. Pariser raised the... [read more]
The role of the Internet and social media in what has been described as the “Arab Spring” in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and the rest of the Middle East is one of the hottest topics in technology and foreign policy. Every day, it’s seems there a new paper, forum or op-ed. Are YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, cellphones, crisis mapping and other... [read more]
Nick Clegg's speech on renewing democracy today was very encouraging. Indeed, I like to think that a number of his ideas have been borrowed from the book I wrote about it with Daniel Hannan, The Plan. One of the most encouraging things about what Clegg says he'll do is that it'll allow those we elect to do more to hold... [read more]
So I'm really worried I'm becoming the one man rant show about the Globe, but as long as their columnists keep writing stuff that completely misunderstand the intersection between technology and politics, I feel bound to say something. First it was Lawrence Martin, who was worried about the future of the country since his profile of... [read more]
Listening to BBC commentators, you'd be forgiven for thinking that all this talk of "progressive Conservatism" was shorthand for Tories who accept the Guardianista world view. Surprisingly, Ben Brogan in today's' Telegraph similarly assumes that progressive Conservatism is some sort of a leftward shift -... [read more]
Tim Aker, the intrepid grassroots coordinator of the Taxpayers' Alliance, was in Bath yesterday. He was not enjoying a day being pampered as the Romans did when they visited the city, instead he had work to do representing the interests of local people opposed to Bath Rapid Transit Scheme.If any of you want to see an example of how local... [read more]
Today is a great day for democracy, and I am pleased to say it is the Conservative Party paving the way for a new system of selecting candidates for parliamentary seats.Around 25% of the electorate in Totnes have voted in an open primary and decided Sarah Wollaston is going to be the next Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate... [read more]
British judges, according to today's Telegraph, are more likely to agree to extradite suspects to the US than American judges are to allow their citizens to be put on trial in the UK. Of course. That's because US judges are more democratically accountable than ours. However snooty us Brits are about the American... [read more]
I’ve just read through the new Strengthening Local Democracy Green Paper, and I can’t sum it up better than Talking Heads did in their 1977 hit, Psycho Killer. Not the refrain “better run, run, run, run away”, but the verse: You start a conversation you can’t even finish. You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything. When I have... [read more]
Had an amazing time at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC last week. More than once I felt my head exploding with new thoughts. In this program full of great thinking and new ideas, danah boyd's talk on "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" was probably the most referenced, and one that struck a nerve.boyd began with questioning... [read more]
I'm giving a talk at the ippr today on why we need directly elected police chiefs. This is an idea that's come a long way since I first argued for it in a 2002 paper for the Tory moderniser think-tank C-Change. I was subsequently hired by Tory HQ to flesh out this idea - and others - before the last election... [read more]
From Bristol and Canterbury to Herefordshire and beyond, over 15,000 students and 700 local government councillors continue to participate in an amazing online competition since it started in Britain in 2002. For one week every year, local councils who opt-in to the program nominate five of their members to compete for “Youth Champion... [read more]
Why is it that the most interesting new ideas in British politics are coming almost exclusively from the centre right? Ten minutes looking at the latest edition of New Statesman provides a pretty good clue. Take, for example, the flagship article by someone called Ted Vallance. He writes of how the Conservatives "vision for... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...