Digital Engagement Team

The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices. We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action, we are a hub for the study of these technologies, and we coordinate community-based design processes locally in the Boston area, across the United States, and around the world.

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

Article by Jens Steffek on e-International Relations - a website for students and scholars of international politics.

UK Department of Health blogging about their use of the Delib consultation tool, Citizen Space.

Bite-size guides to patient and public participation.

Steph himself is a digital strategist and practitioner, helping clients to use low-cost digital tools and techniques including social media to engage their audiences, work more collaboratively and save money. He writes strategies, manages projects, builds websites and delivers training.

Blog by Tim Lloyd head of Digital at BIS.

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

The Open Ministry (Avoin ministeriö) is about crowdsourcing legislation, deliberative and participatory democracy and citizens initiatives. It is a non-profit organization based in Helsinki, Finland.

Updates from civil society engagement with the UK Government on data sharing

Blog about the use of social media in the UK's Government Digital Service.

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

This Guide aims to become one of the best sources of useful examples, tools and practical advice about how UK public sector organisations can engage online.

Social Media Strategy concept known as the homeland-embassy approach

Social media policy examples from a range of different organisations.

Guide on what to avoid when using Twitter

What to do when something goes wrong, from Steph of Helpful Technology.

Blog post ideas

"Open University research project that aims to facilitate debate and mutual learning among the many different actors involved, so that we better understand these new forms of public participation in the broader social and political context in which they are situated. This page provides a platform for contributions to this debate."

"Find out how new forms of participatory public engagement are working to reshape contemporary life."