The importance of evaluation

Stephen Hale at the FCO has an excellent, interesting and important post about measuring the success of the London G20 Summit site. With wonderful openness and transparency, Stephen has set out some of the factors by which the site’s success could be measured, along with the results. Its fascinating reading, and provides lots of lessons … Keep reading

Citizen Engagement in Australia

Despina Babbage from the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development in the government of the state of Victoria in Australia emailed me this morning to let me know about her blog, which is all about citizen engagement. It’s well worth subscribing to, as Despina does a great job of pulling together activity from all … Keep reading

Bookmarks for April 4th through April 13th

Stuff I have bookmarked for April 4th through April 13th: Working with us – Collaborative Innovation – Programmes – NESTA – Amplified City is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised project, enabled by social media. We'll … Keep reading

Mash the State

Mash the State is a campaign to “encourage UK government and public sector organisations to make their data available to the general public.” The first part of the campaign is dedicated to getting local authorities in the UK using RSS to disseminate information from their websites. Currently only 66 of 434 local councils currently produce … Keep reading