We-Democracy: Paper and Pen Powered Politics

This article has been reposted from the Personal Democracy Forum Europe blog which I am currently writing for in the run up to the PDF Europe 2009 conference in Barcelona in November.

IDeA Knowledge Hub

Last week I spent a morning at the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA) talking about its idea for a new Knowledge Hub. You can find out more from the slides here and here, and there was plenty of Twittering so check out the hashtag.

Digital Democracy: People Powered Politics

This is the transcript and presentation from my slot at the IDeA’s “Councillors Connected” online conference on their Community of Practice site

Hi and welcome to “Digital Democracy: People Powered Politics”

Councillors Connected…

Carrie Bishop joins the FutureGov family

Having recently brought Justin Kerr-Stevens and Michelle Lyons into the FutureGov fold, we thought why stop there so this week we’ve added one more to our number this week (the last for now at least!). Carrie Bishop has joined us to help out on developing…

Where to find FutureGov in June and July

A bit like back in March this year, it seems event time is upon again here in FutureGov Towers. So here’s a quick post pulling it all together and letting you know where you can find us in case you fancy coming along and joining in the fun!

Leading from the…

links for 2009–10–06

Job: Head of Digital Engagement, Foreign & Commonwealth Office | FutureGov Network

 Interesting one going

 (tags: digitalengagement fco gov20 government uk)

 

 MySociety Founder’s Tory Support Has Some Crying Foul | Personal Democracy Forum

 “Helping someone’s electoral prospects and…

The Killer Question

We’re currently looking at the role of social media in recruitment — not only using the web to recruit, but also what we should expect candidates for public sector leadership roles to know about the world as a place where people are online and networked.

Podcast: Barnet Council and Public Services 2.0

A couple of weeks ago I agreed to take part in the Parity Podcasts series, aimed at

interviews with technical and business people working in the area of Collaborative Information Management and Web 2.0. In the podcasts the people share their…