Digital Engagement Team

Facebook to replace TV advertising as the place where American elections are fought and won?

Just keeping some good chat and contacts.

Don't just ask for the favourite, ask for all the OKs. Let people vote for more than one option!

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).

Great site, great level of activity reflected. Reportedly working better than Vallejo because it works at ward level, not city wide.

A review of Brazil as a leader in participatory institutions, outline of their successes.

Participatory budgeting in Vallejo, California and how it's not going so well. 'Elected officials can feel like they're supposed to be governing but they're contradicted and their ideas or leadership are not affirmed.'

#OurUK is a place to capture discussions and resources on citizen led constitutional reform in the UK after the Scottish referendum. Coordinated by Involve.

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

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

Demsoc (The Democratic Society) is a membership organisation promoting participation, networked democracy, and active citizenship.

Involve are experts in public participation. Through both research and practice they seek to radically transform the relationship between citizens and their governments to better use the creativity, energy, knowledge, skills and resources of all.

This tool provides practical information for those working to involve people. By registering you can add methods, cases, library resources, news and experts to our database.

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.

Good practice principles.

Participation Cymru is a partnership of public and third sector organisations hosted by WCVA. They work with public service organisations in the public, private and third sectors to achieve better public engagement in the design, development and delivery of citizen-centred services for the people of Wales.

Dialogue by Design, as part of the OPM Group, specialises in running public and stakeholder engagement processes using online, paper-based and face-to-face methods.