It looks like a bit of a headline grabber, but the proposal to allow users to provide instant feedback on public services may enable government to break out of the cycle in which one bad news story about a council on an (unreliable!) national news medium can trump all of one’s experience of local services. [...]
Posts on ‘March 10th, 2009’
Transparency camp
The lastest in the near-franchise that is BarCamp – TransparencyCamp (US). (No rush to book by the way. The Washington DC venue may be a bit of a big ask, and the fact that it happened over a week ago may also make it awkward for you to attend). But it’s an interesting idea nevertheless. This [...]
Will Victor be the eventual victor?
This blog is here to explore the concept of a more inclusive means of forming policy at a local level. So let me offer you two examples of the kind of people that we need to include in such processes. Our first case in point – let’s call her Mrs Meldrew (though it’s not really [...]