Digital Engagement Team

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.

"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."