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"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."

"Puzzled by Policy is a complete solution for engaging people in the policy process. It offers a toolkit to support improved policy-making through a combination of online and offline citizen engagement."

On 19 May the Open Policy Making (OPM) Team and Government Digital Service (GDS) co-hosted an event where we shared practical examples of how departments are embedding OPM and showcased some of the latest tools and techniques to help the open policy-maker. Below is a snapshot that we hope captures some of the energy and enthusiasm that was apparent on the day

"OurSpace is an Online Social Network powered by European Youth and Youth Organisations to: Debate, Discuss and Engage on EU topics, National Affairs and Policies. Influence EU and National policy-makers on issues that concern European Youth. Connect and network with peers online, on Facebook and on-the-go. Benefit youth NGOs with a multi-channel and multi-lingual community & tool."

The Scottish Government's policies on its use of social media.

Social media policy examples from a range of different organisations.

Open Policy Making aims to drive up the quality of civil service advice. It encourages greater collaboration to challenge and innovate beyond conventional thinking.

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

Article about Finland's crowd sourced policy making and the Open Ministry.

This site is Demsoc's Open Policymaking discussion space and the centre of our project, where we bring together a range of contributions from citizens, campaigning organisations, businesses, academics and officials.

Blog by Oliver Escobar of Edinburgh University who is an expert on participative democracy.

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.

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.

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