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

The purpose of this site is simple: to help you to explore the new opportunities that the digital world offers for engaging with and empowering citizens and consumers. It contains one of the most comprehensive, categorised collections of Digital Engagement methods on the web.

Welcome to ParticipateDB, a collaborative catalogue for online tools for participation brought to you by Intellitics, a provider of digital engagement solutions

Participedia harnesses the power of collaboration to respond to a recent global phenomenon: the rapid development of experiments in new forms of participatory politics and governance 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.

"The OECD is currently developing an Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) which collects and analyses examples and shared experiences of public sector innovation to provide practical advice to countries on how to make innovations work. "

WIMPS stands for "Where Is My Public Servant?". It is a project run by and for young people. We started (way back in 2004!) with an idea - how do we make politics more relevant to young people? We decided one way of doing this was to remind politicians that they work for us - the citizens. We have created this space for young people like you to discuss and debate issues. We also want to do more - to get organised, to campaign and to bring our views directly to politicians and others, and to influence the decisions that affect our lives.

Simple advice from Twitter

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

"One such thing is happening in the Netherlands: thousands of civil servants belonging to all government organizations have built their own "intranet" using Pleio ("government square", in Dutch) a platform that runs on the open source networking engine Elgg."

Final report of the Commission on Fair Access to Policital Influence

The Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group co-ordinates and promotes theoretical and empirical research in democratic theory and democratic innovation. We're a specialist group of the UK's

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

"Mamie Rheingold's interview of her father, Howard Rheingold, on the past, present and future of virtual communities. This interview was recorded at the Google Developer Groups (GDG) Global Summit at the Googleplex in Mountain View."

Blog by Tiago Peixoto

Project which uses Github to collaborate on a manifesto.