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Involve’s take on the new principles
In the second of a three part series about the new Government Consultation Principles, Edward Andersson writes about Involve’s reaction to these new principles. In my previous post I looked at initial...
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Contrasting Opinions: Social Media’s Role in Participation
A summary of Rob Dale and Tim Hughes recent Guardian Online articles on social media and participation. Last week, Rob Dale argued in the Guardian Online that social media was the key to participation...
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Opening up government
If you are involved in promoting any aspect of Open Government, such as transparency or participation, we encourage you to attend a meeting of the UK Open Government Partnership Civil Society Network....
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Transparently the wrong question
The answer to whether lobbying by business and civil society should be made transparent is an obvious yes. The real question is how to bring more voices into government. I’m just about to start...
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Participation Compass
Involve is proud to announce the launch of our new practitioner site ParticipationCompass.org. The site is a revamped and improved version of the PeopleandParticipation.net site that was launched in...
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Public participation for the lost
Involve’s Communications Intern, Metin Parlak, introduces ParticipationCompass.org – the revamped and updated version of PeopleandParticipation.net. Have you ever noticed that when you discover or...
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Politics, public engagement and mob rule
A few reflections on the Public Administration Select Committee’s evidence session on Public Engagement. So, I survived my grilling by the Public Administration Select Committee. The inquiry was...
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Open Government Partnership
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global effort to make governments better by promoting transparency, empowering citizens, fighting corruption, and harnessing new technologies to strengthen...
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Where is the public in the debate about public interest
The public is missing from all the debate about how the press should be regulated. I’m loath to add to the reams of paper and bucket loads of electronic bytes which have been spent on the forthcoming...
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Energy transition: what about involving citizens?
In my previous post about engagement with local energy issues and climate change, I argued that these complex issues require government and citizens to work together, but this isn’t by any means an...
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Beyond representative democracy: adventures in trusting the public
On January 11th, I will be speaking at the Headstrong Club in Lewes. Here’s the blurb from the Club’s website. In her 1977 novel The Dispossessed, Ursula le Guin creates an egalitarian, anarchist...
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Playing policy top-trumps: Is there a best way to inform policy?
Emily Dawson works at King’s College London (Department of Education & Professional Studies) and University College London (Department of Science & Technology Studies) doing a mixture of...
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Clive Mitchell joins Involve
I’m thrilled and proud to be joining Involve as Programme Manager. Having worked alongside my colleagues at Involve for the last year or so as Local Government Associate, I’m really looking forward to...
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Resetting the Aid Relationship
The aid and development sector has been a pioneer within the engagement field, developing practical and innovative methodologies such as Participatory Appraisal as well as embedding concepts such as...
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Live discussion: how to encourage local democratic participation
I will be one of the expert panelists for a live online discussion on local democratic engagement, hosted by the Guardian. You can join the panel of experts for the live discussion from 12pm-2pm...
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Critical Components for Engaging Civil Society in the National Action Plan
Read my article about the critical components for engaging civil society in the UK’s second National Action Plan on the Open Gov Blog Image by Rennett Stowe
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Opening Aid Policy: A Few Thoughts on How and When
This is the second in a series of posts following the launch of an Involve research paper, comparing public engagement in policy involving science and technology to public engagement in aid policy. The...
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Citizen engagement as an act of leadership
Open Policy making is one of the Government’s big ideas. The Public Administration Select Committee completed an inquiry into it last year, and has now just released its report. This post gives an...
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Participating in Open Government
This post is adapted from Involve’s newsletter. You can sign up to the newsletter on the homepage. Does a movement demonstrate it has got legs when it starts to produce videos? If so then this well...
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Hear hear! This to me is why in the end, representative democracy should always trump participatory processes – MPs, councillors etc at (theoretically) least have to consider a the full range of...
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