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Rowena from Delib blogs about: Working with Defra for the past 18 months, I was pleased to be invited to one of their department training sessions on running effective consultations

Look at the Department of health's approach to consultation

Our latest online debate discussed the best ways to run an online consultation

We help governments and public bodies around the world do this by providing awesome digital democracy apps and consultation software to facilitate online policy-making and consultation.

Good practice principles.

"In February this year, eight Junior Digital Media Producers from Bristol arts charity Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC), were set a challenge to engage their community and encourage community activism. The project was called Data Patchwork and the team's response to the brief was a fascinating exploration of innovative ways to collect and represent data. One of the outcomes was an exhibit called 'The Cardboard Living Room.' As you might glean from the name, the exhibit was a room filled with 3D cardboard furniture, but perhaps less expected is that every piece of furniture was connected to a computer which reacted to movement."

UK Department of Health blogging about their use of the Delib consultation tool, Citizen Space.

Delib blog about the first meeting of local government users of their consultation platform Citizen Space.

Dialogue by Design, as part of the OPM Group, specialises in running public and stakeholder engagement processes using online, paper-based and face-to-face methods.

Submission to the Speaker's commission on digital democracy by a full time associate of The Consultation Institute.

"Improving engagement between citizens, governments and organisations on public issues is our passion. All CiviQ products are based on recent innovations in deliberative democratic theory on which we have consulted with citizens, Councillors and management in Fingal County. "

Delib Dialogue App

Steph himself is a digital strategist and practitioner, helping clients to use low-cost digital tools and techniques including social media to engage their audiences, work more collaboratively and save money. He writes strategies, manages projects, builds websites and delivers training.

Final report of the Commission on Fair Access to Policital Influence

"On 24 January 70 Heads of Policy Profession and Digital Leaders met to share practical examples and experiences of Open Policy Making and to learn about some of the tools and techniques that can support an open approach to the policy process.

"So … digital is just about transforming services? No, not in our view, nor in the view of our open policy making colleagues. Yesterday we co-hosted an event with the Open Policy Making (OPM) team in the Cabinet Office that included how digital is being used by policy makers across government."

"A short video that shows how we analysed the community of contributors to the Digital Culture Public Sphere to get some context around the data and ideas contributed. Full video and transcript at http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/12/15/analysing-the-public-sphere-%E2%80%93-data-and-community/"