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Updates from civil society engagement with the UK Government on data sharing

"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."

"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/"

"What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness - connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. Imagine the "writable society" ..."

Eddie Copeland argues that government should flip the idea of Open Data on its head to improve public service delivery and open policymaking.

Data for policy changes, improvement of public services, improvement in marketing and enabling civic participation. An angle for the Digital Engagement team?

Delib Dialogue App

A global community of democracy researchers, practitioners and interested citizens who crowd-source data on democratic innovations from around the world.

In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.

Open government is great. At least, it was a few election cycles ago. FOIA requests, open data, seeing how your government works-it's arguably brought light to a lot of not-so-great practices, and in many cases, has spurred citizen-centric innovation not otherwise imagined before the information's release.

This web app provides easier and/or visual access to data and statistics extracted from MSP votes. Unless otherwise stated, raw data is extracted from the official Scottish Parliament(SP) website, seldom supplemented with information gathered from pages on SP at Wikipedia.

We want to challenge this traditional way of operating elections. We've already started building a prototype for an online voting platform, designed to operate a policy-based election. With Kickstarter's help, we will launch our platform at the time of the 2015 general election campaign. Participants will vote on ideas, and not just the narrow field of polarised ideas often dictated by political parties and the media. Voters will consider policies, the results will be captured and visualised, with national data being updated as the election progresses. Data and trends can then be used as part of a national debate.

Advice on how to write the perfect blog post.