A case study of the impact of public participation on technology policy: xenotransplantation. In a nutshell: no impact detectable, the field was dominated by civil servants and experts.
What people think about politics through what they read. Unfortunately, only for the US, but quite interesting. It looks by reading material, that the Democrats will have a hard time this November.
A new generation of Collective Intelligence (CI) technologies, adopted by public and private sector organizations, offers "the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate and invent".
About the project The USA Today/ Twitter Election meter is a graphic representation of the Twitter Political Index, a daily number produced by Twitter in partnership with Topsy labs and polling firms The Mellman Group and North Star Opinion Research.
The UK Government is improving the way it consults by adopting a more proportionate and targeted approach, so that the type and scale of engagement is proportional to the potential impacts of the proposal. The emphasis is on understanding the effects of a proposal and focussing on real engagement with key groups rather than following a set process.
Last night the ARG:dundee team conducted close argument analysis on a live 45 minute broadcast of an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Moral Maze, using our Argument AnalysisWall. We aimed to make debates available on the Argument Web for all the different compatible online tools to access.
The Social Simulator is a hands-on, private environment to practice using the language, tools and norms of the social web for social media PR and crisis response
BudgIT is creative start-up driven to retell the Nigerian budget and public data in a finer detail across every literacy span. We aim to stimulate citizens interests around public data and hence trigger discussions towards better governance. We are committed to principles of open data & governance, citizen participation and data transparency.