Kevin Harris has a long but worth-reading post over on the New Start magazine’s blog.
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Are interactive media experts really improving the quality of democracy?
Posted on March 18, 2009 by Paul Evans
OK, in recent posts, I’ve moaned about the demands for political transparency that are being fuelled by new interactive media applications. Let me try and put this into some perspective:
In my opening ‘defending political parties‘ post, I acknowledged that there are a few early knockout punches that could be delivered to the argument that political [...]
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Counterproductive demands for transparency?
Posted on March 16, 2009 by Paul Evans
About a year ago, I heard snippets of a radio programme that really stuck with me.
I didn’t make a note of the name of the programme at the time (I was driving), and it has taken me best part of the last year plugging away at the few contacts I have in the BEEB’s political [...]
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Transparency camp
Posted on March 10, 2009 by Paul Evans
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 all [...]
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Pushing policy instead of politics - and listening to the conversation.
Posted on January 14, 2009 by Paul Evans
This US post is calling for the data that agencies use to be as available as their conclusions.
“Mindy Finn noted that politicians (typically leery of too much openness) can benefit from transparency in a self-protective “flood the zone” way — since people are coming to expect information about public figures to be available online, someone [...]
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Guidelines confetti - a few observations
Posted on January 9, 2009 by Paul Evans
I’d been planning to do this blog for years, but the thing that finally nudged me to get on with it was this story (my first post) about how an MP’s online allowance was docked by the Parliamentary authorities because he used it in the way that you would expect politicians to use such an [...]
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Crowdsourcing policy
Posted on December 13, 2008 by Paul Evans
The FT has picked up on a couple of social media sites that are intended to bring ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to bear upon the new President’s policymaking. Both Fix This Barack and Whitehouse 2 aim to set priorities for the incoming President. Obama’s team appear to be taking steps to do this themselves by [...]
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The ordinary citizen as a supplier of public sector information?
Posted on December 10, 2008 by Paul Evans
How’s that for a way of summing up the potential of new interactive tools to transform government?
While Babelfish may often be a bit of a joke, sometimes a translation can unlock a bit of value from a sentence and a light goes on in the heads of we foreigners. A translation from Norwegian is very [...]
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