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<>If councils spend citizens’ money on developing systems to inform and engage citizens, shouldn’t they also share the software?   A while back I wrote about my experience of sitting on a Government advisory board discussing plans to spend £2 million of public money on Citizen Engagement Tools. We </>... more

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After the excellent efforts of Adrian Short to make council web sites more useful by providing news feeds, I found another no-cost digital engagement innovation. Again from an individual.<>Corinne Pritchard dropped a comment into a piece a wrote which bemoaned the way that a government department p</>... more

<>The London G20 Summit earlier this month was an impressive example of Government trying to do digital engagement well and I think succeeding. Now Stephen Hale, Head of Engagement, Digital Diplomacy, at Foreign and Commonwealth Office has produced what seems to me a very honest personal assessment</>... more

<>Brian Kelly has an interesting follow-up on the story that I wrote about here and here of how Bob McKee, CEO of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) upset a lot of his members deriding the role of Twitter … then drew some thoughful lessons on social media and profe</>... more

The e-government/Digital Engagement Minister Tom Watson is to stand down from Government when the Prime Minister’s reshuffle takes place shortly, confirming earlier speculation. more