In the last week I have receive two separate pieces of correspondence through the post encouraging local democratic participation in the area of Enfield, north London where I live.
I’ve written quite a bit before now about digital democracy. I believe a vital part of that is the empowerment of the Parliamentary Digital service and their transformation into a world-class digital delivery organisation.
It’s not every day you go to an event that may change your life — even if it’s only in a small way. One such event was Monday last week when I went to the Intelligence Squared lecture on effective altruism…
The inimitable Tom Steinberg, of mySociety and much else fame, has been writing an excellent series of blog posts since he retired from heading up that organisation.
On Monday he wrote one called Problems that motivate me about the list of things he is…
The Institute of Government did a great blog post recently about the need for government to ‘dogfood’ using its own data. This built on a previous IoG publication looking specifically at impact indicators.