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

The Participation Toolkit, now in its third edition, has been compiled to support NHS staff to involve patients, carers and members of the public in their own care and in the design and delivery of local services. It offers a number of tried and tested tools along with some more recently developed approaches.

Civic Exchange is a platform for improving public services by showcasing and promoting the reuse of civic software. This includes online tools that support public service delivery, apps/services built on government APIs, or initiatives piloted with a local authority and created by others. The platform is run by Nesta in collaboration with our Code for Europe partners.

The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices. We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action, we are a hub for the study of these technologies, and we coordinate community-based design processes locally in the Boston area, across the United States, and around the world.

The Alliance for Useful Evidence champions the use of evidence in social policy and practice. We are an open-access network of more than 1,800 individuals from across government, universities, charities, business and local authorities in the UK and internationally. - See more at: http://www.alliance4usefulevidence.org/#sthash.5v8aQwvx.dpuf

'This official Instagram account is produced by Local Government and Regeneration Committee clerks to provide information on the Committee's work'. Hmmmmm.....

Just to flag the activities of our colleagues. Could be good for a chat sometime? PB for SG led by Kathleen Glazik who also heads up Community Council stuff for SG (LA Community Council Liaison Officers).