Liz Azyan picks up on some questions about e-petitions that were asked here by Paul a couple of months back. She doesn’t mention the fascinating word cloud that accompanies her article, called “E-petition verbs”.
The biggest words are, on a quick skim, “prevent, save, reimburse, make, oppose, charge and introduce”. With my local government head [...]
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E-petitioning flow diagram
Peter Cruikshank has pulled together a really useful post here, complete with print-off-able pictures – a very useful resource for every local authority to use to find out about e-petitioning (and every local authority will have to know about petitioning shortly).
It’s been done as part of the Europetition project, but most of it is UK-applicable.
I [...]
Petitions and e-petitions: A few observations
Last week, the a 10 Downing St petition resulted in Alan Turing receiving the apology and recognition that he has long deserved. And petitions are likely to become a much more prominent fixture of public life in the next year or so.
My sources in Westminster tell me that the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [...]
Twitter – love it / hate it???
Yes – I’m new here – I think Paul asked me as we have been having a falling out about Petitions over on my blog and he likes an argument.
You can find out more about me there obviously but probably the most relevant fact is that I am currently researching for a PHD around the [...]
Transparency – sticking plaster or panacea?
MySociety’s Tom Steinberg has, for some years, been urging government to adapt some of the lessons that successful websites have learned.
Here he is, writing one of the Reboot Britain essays serialised in The Independent.
“….most people are …familiar with Amazon’s ability to tell you that “people who bought this also bought that”, and increasingly “people who [...]
Guidelines confetti – a few observations
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 [...]
Two things noticed elsewhere
Firstly, this is a lovely idea about how design can be used to improve the quality of communication at a local level. Here’s the original site, and here’s an image to whet your whistle:
And secondly, totally unrelated, here’s a list of the petitions that have gone before the EU petittions committee.
Just for the avoidance of [...]
Local Referendums – coming to a town hall near you?
Well, we knew it was coming – here:
“New proposals to make it easier to get local leaders to hold a referendum on their leadership structure, putting communities firmly in control of their town and council, has been published for consultation by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears.”
It is particularly interesting that these votes will be on the [...]
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