Digital Engagement Team

The purpose of this guide to citizen engagement is to strengthen the foundation for participatory governance within the federal government, in particular in agency decision making.

Briefing papers on engaging with older people, minorities and rural populations.

The core of this publication is the 'framework for an ideal empowering authority' - a benchmark setting out the standard that all authorities, working with their communities and partners, should be aspiring to reach.

This diagnostic and toolkit has been developed by Sciencewise- ERC to help people within organisations who are interested in improving their organisation's use of dialogue and engagement.

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.

Loomio is free and open source software for anyone, anywhere, to participate in decisions that affect them

Blog highlighting the wortk of the Digital Team at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

An unofficial guidance flowchart to help UK civil servants decide if a tweet or status update is appropriate.

People all around the world are demanding more openness in government. They are seeking ways for citizens to be able to participate in the decisions that effect them, and for governments to be more transparent, responsive, accountable, and effective. What are the steps that governments can take?

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

The Citizens Foundation is a non-profit based in Reykjavik, Iceland. The mission of the Citizens Foundation is to bring people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities.

Our latest online debate discussed the best ways to run an online consultation

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global effort to make governments better by promoting transparency, empowering citizens, fighting corruption, and harnessing new technologies to strengthen governance. OGP was launched in 2011 in New York by eight governments, and overseen by a steering committee of governments and civil society organizations.

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.

miituu is a pioneering video research and opinion gathering tool which gives organisations a much richer understanding of their audience.

"What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness - connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. Imagine the "writable society" ..."

"The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub - so why can't governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens."

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

The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. We are seeking new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science.