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Adventures in Digital Democracy
Adventures in Digital Democracy
Adventures in Digital Democracy
Part 1: UK
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What I did last summer
Me in a vineyard
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Your Freedom in detail
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The Spending Challenge had even higher levels of
engagement compared to Your Freedom: over 15 page
views and over 9 minutes on the site.
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What happened next
• 6 weeks after the end of the process, the Chancellor
announced which initial ideas he was going to take
forward.
• 3 ideas were identified:
– a more common sense approach to Criminal Record
Bureau checks for junior doctors.
– piloting an online auction site for surplus and second
hand Government equipment
– replacing the plastic National Insurance number card
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reducing costs.
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. . . so what did this all cost?
£25,000 total
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Adventures in digital democracy
Part 2: US
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the 2008 election, we were
commissioned by NAPA, the OMB and GSA to create the
Dialogue App as part of a pilot Dialogue around Health IT.
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Running Obama’s first Dialogue
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