The Whitehouse is using MixedInk

Readers of this blog could be forgiven for believing that I’m on some sort of commission scheme for Debategraph and MixedInk.

Like the best ideas in this field, these two projects have focused their energy on getting the idea right and the initial project out of the door. That’s a long way of saying that they don’t have an affiliate-scheme and I’m not getting a penny from either of them.

Well, it seems that I’m not alone in rating MixedInk’s approach. The Whitehouse is giving it a try – using it to draft it’s open government standards.

If that isn’t an endorsement, I’ve no idea what is. In giving people a slightly competitive platform to collaboratively shape ideas, MixedInk ticks almost every box in terms of providing a positive way of including people in policy processes. Instead of a spEak You’re bRanes – type ‘race to the bottom’, it urges it’s participants to get stuck into the issues and add value to them in a realistic way.