links for 2008-12-16
By Dominic Campbell • Dec 16th, 2008 • Category: Useful links-
"In another Internet milestone, Barack Obama's transition team responded to some of the most pressing questions on Americans' minds on Monday evening, at least according to the twenty thousand citizens who participated in the first user-generated press conference of the new administration." One amazing crowd sourced public policy innovation to another (via Derek Baird)
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"The first day's programme was pretty weak, but there were some good talks on the second day. Overall, an impressive event, but one which I think needs some stronger direction next year." I love the man's honesty. Love it. Plenty of room for constructive criticism and praise in the world.
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Totally pathetic use of twitter. Bah humbug you say? Nope. Its just sh*te.
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via Derek Baird
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"Our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all." Love it. Anything that makes this stuff more accessible and interesting gets my support (via Rohan Gunatillake)
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Oh my.
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As it says (via Liz Azyan)
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"eGovernments Foundation is a not-for-profit trust that was founded in Feb 2003 by Nandan Nilekani & Srikanth Nadhamuni with a goal of creating an eGovernance system to improve the functioning of City Municipalities leading to better delivery of services to their citizens."
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I’ve been looking at that Debate graph - and there is the quite-old (more basic) Debatabase idea - here:
http://www.idebate.org/
In both cases, they seem to be very big and interanationalised. There is a real scope, I think, for a similar exercise to be done at a much more local level - where a debate is anatomised by it’s participants, the issues are objectified (personality and party-political considerations removed) and presented to the wider public. This would show that the participants had ’shown their working’ and it would be good for the thought-processes of participants.
If any local authority wanted to do this as a democratic exercise, the results would be really worth seeing.