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Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Feb 23, 2019

How to design the perfect council committee meeting (with Lego)

Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

May 23, 2018

The Better Scrutiny by Design framework

This is a framework that I have developed to help improve the process of scrutiny. It’s been produced with local government in mind but can be applied in any public body that includes scrutiny within its governance arrangements.

Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Sep 29, 2017

Stepping in and stepping out: How to involve councillors in digital design projects

Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Sep 18, 2017

Local democracy and digital: a new romance

Last week I went to Localgovcamp in Bristol.

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Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Dec 9, 2016

Dear democracy, you need more hackers

This is my write up from Nesta’s recent digital democracy day — I wasn’t planning to blog but…

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Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Nov 3, 2016

How to Set Up a Local Democracy Design Experiment

Here is some advice we hope will be useful for anyone running one of our notwestminster local democracy design experiments. As you know these are being being supported by the good folk at the Centre for Public Scrutiny.

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Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Jul 27, 2016

Local democracy experiments: Some design principles (alpha)

Over at Notwestminster HQ we've been setting up some design experiments for local democracy.

This would be a good moment to thank the fine folk at the Centre for Public Scrutiny who have made this part…

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Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Feb 22, 2016

Working in a Notwestminster Stylee

Late on Saturday, after the main notwestminster event had finished, we started having some…

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Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Feb 16, 2016

Redesigning the Council Meeting Part II

This post is a write up of my workshop at notwestminster 16. You can find the background…

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Dave Mckenna in Local Democracy Geek

Nov 19, 2015

Going with the Grain: Citizens Advice on redesigning democracy

This week I went to the launch of Going with the Grain; a report by Citizens Advice Bureau. If you haven’t read it yet I suggest that you do. This post is a response to the report and some other reflections. Spoiler: I…