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

We asked former home secretary David Blunkett and other experts how to involve #peopleinpolitics. Here's what they said

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.

Presentation by Amy Pollard of the Cabinet Office's Open Policymaking Team.

"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."

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

"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/"

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