Developing and sustaining effective organisations
This article was originally published by Total Politics. It isn’t just immigration, public services and housing. The coalition’s localising policy informs the debate about the media too, as we explore the tension beaten localisation and cosmopolitanism With each twist and revelation the News International phone hacking scandal takes on a greater life as a political event in and…
The Localism Bill is pushing us towards new, more personalised ways of service delivery. At the same time, the Spending Review requires councils to deliver savings of 28% by 2015.
Local authorities could save between 10 and 20 per cent of their expenditure on energy, telephony and solicitors simply by procuring differently. This is the conclusion of a White Paper released by Opera Solutions last Friday. I was initially sceptical about the papers focus, though the figure for savings seemed very accurate. I am very…
Creative industries in south west London are pulling together and using their proximity to a total benefit that is greater than the sum of their parts
UK Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox explores how closing the digital divide will increase civic participation and explains the vital role local government must play in ensuring we achieve a networked nation.
BBC News Parliamentary Correspondent Mark D’Arcy interviews Francis Maude MP, the minister responsible for public service reform, about transparency and his hopes for public mutual companies.
Open reflects a growing recognition that what matters is not the technology or the tools but the uses you put them to: the forms of engaging, doing and being that they enable and the way they increase and improve democratic participation for a growing number of people.
Last night I attended a seminar at the UCL’s Constitution Unit which featured a presentation from Chris Taggart – developer of OpenlyLocal.com – on open local data. Rather than write up a whole post, I thought I’d try just sharing my notes – which are in a Google Doc here. Chris’ slides are here. For those short of…
Last Thursday evening I attended the MailCamp event – “a one-off show & tell workshop for people interested in how the public sector uses email marketing, newsletters and alerts to better engage with an audience”. Email is largely seen as old fashioned , but as Thomas Gensemer, the mastermind behind the Obama for America campaign,…
This piece from Richard Parsons was originally posted on his eDemocracyBlog.com. Richard is a former editor of ePolitix.com and you can find him on twitter at @problybored Last year I wrote about how I would define eDemocracy, and concluded by suggesting that: “Looking back 50 years from now, eDemocracy will be the name we give to…
