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PM announces New Educational Technology Allowances

by Kevin 23/09/2008 in People

In his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester this afternoon Gordon Brown unveiled a £300m scheme aimed at ensuring every child in the country has access to a PC and connectivity at home.
There are currently 1.4 million school pupils who don’t have internet access from home. The Prime Minister said “We want [...]

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The UK e-democracy debate – getting stale?

by stephencoleman 03/04/2008 in Bristol

Andy Williamson has suggested that ‘the UK eDemocracy debate is a bit stale, and particularly so around local government.’ It would be interesting to pursue this, not with a view to reflecting upon its staleness, but in the hope of moving the agenda forward.

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Third International Political Forum on eDemocracy

by Kevin 02/04/2008 in Bristol

eVoice is a four year EU funded project developing best practice in e-Participation. The focus has been on examining how new channels of communication can run alongside and support existing ones to make sure everyone can participate in civic life in the best way for them.
The evoice project has organised its third International Political Forum [...]

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No 10 goes on the web offensive

by Matt 01/04/2008 in Bristol

I thought that as we are getting all political on Connecting Bristol at the moment, I would share this with you! I noticed that we are now being followed by No10 Downing street on our Twitter site at the moment. (For more info on Twitter take a look here.)
The No10 webmaster does admit that “Downing [...]

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Does the End of Civil Serf mean Civil silence?

by Matt 27/03/2008 in Bristol

Civil Serf, the civil servant secret blogger, was silenced recently after Whitehall launched a hunt to find her. Whatever your political persuasion, and some of her posts were not flattering to her employers, one has to ask, surely, that isn’t a blog part of free speech? By definition, it is the [...]

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Conference 5th February: Open Source Software in the Voluntary Sector

by Kevin 10/01/2008 in Bristol

The availability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is an attractive proposition for the Voluntary Sector. FOSS can potentially provide less expensive, easier to maintain, more extensible, more secure implementations of software than proprietary alternatives. If you want to explore the options and issues around deploying FOSS in your Voluntary Sector organization register for [...]

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Councillor Commission Report Overlooks Technology

by Stephen Hilton 13/12/2007 in Technology

The newly published report of the Councillors Commission makes recommendations regarding the following,

Encouraging people who are able, qualified and representative to be candidates to serve as councillors.
Retaining and developing them once they are elected (or appointed under the Local Government Act 2000).
Enabling them to secure public interest and recognition for the work they carry out [...]

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eDemocracy update

by Kevin 31/07/2007 in Bristol

Bristol’s eDemocracy work made an appearance in the Times this weekend. The article referred to the success of an online survey which determined the future of a work by internationally renowned graffiti artist Banksy.
The survey, which has been covered on this site before, attracted 400 new members to the Ask Bristol website and ensured that [...]

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Downing Street Follows Bristol’s Lead on e-Petitioning

by Stephen Hilton 18/11/2006 in Bristol

For centuries, governments have kindly allowed citizens to collectively voice their opinion by presenting a petition. E-petitioning brings this ‘human right’ into the twenty-first century.
Following the Scottish Parliament’s lead, Bristol and Kingston upon Thames became the first two UK councils to adopt e-petitioning; this was over eighteen months ago.
It is gratifying that Downing Street [...]

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