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Downing Street 10 - Twitter channel
Gordon Browns Digital Communication team posts news on the microblogging tool Twitter. Subscribers to this channel got press feeds and short 140 characters updates.
Tags for this project: active microblogging Twitter United Kingdom
Ask the PM
In June 2008, Premier Gordon Brown answered a first sample of questions by the British citizens. Everybody could create a video and upload it to the video-platform YouTube. The only restriction was that the video had to be under 60 seconds lenght.
Tags for this project: active Gordon Brown United Kingdom video Video-podcast YouTube
Lords of the Blog
According to the authors, Lords of the Blog is an experimental project to encourage direct dialogue between web users across the world and Members of the House of Lords.
Tags for this project: active Blog House of Lords United Kingdom weblog
ShoutOut 11 Million
There are 11 million of children in England - in 2007 the first Children´s Commisisioner has been set up. The website is a space for kids to have their say and to discuss the Commissioner´s plans for the following year.
Tags for this project: active have your say United Kingdom young people
Second Health
The Deaprtment of Health supports a project by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Imperial College London (ICL). A virtual hospital in the 3D virtual world of Second Life has been created, where British citizens should explore, discuss and shape the future of healthcare.
Tags for this project: active Department of Health healthcare Second Life United Kingdom
generationXperience
A weblog set up by the Department for Work and Pensions. The website has been set up to give people who are over 50 the chance to talk to government representatives about the things they care about.
Tags for this project: active Department for Work and Pensions older people United Kingdom weblog
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Blogs
The weblogs of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office should provide a place for Ministers and officials to engage in a dialogue with British citizens about international affairs and the work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Tags for this project: active Blog Foreign and Commonwealth Office United Kingdom weblog
Digital Dialogues
Digital Dialogues is an independent review of ways in which central government can use information and communication technology (ICT) to enable and enhance public engagement. It has been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and is carried out by the Hansard Society.
Tags for this project: active Hansard Society ICT ministry of justice online dialogue United Kingdom
Farmsubsidy.org
Farmsubsidy.org uses freedom of information law to force European governments to release detailed data on who gets what from Europe's €55 billion Common Agricultural Policy. Then the data is made available online.
Tags for this project: active European Union Information transparency United Kingdom
DoWire Groups
DoWire Groups promotes international online information and knowledge exchange on e-democracy, e-government, and democracy practices. It is the online place for those building information-age democracy, governance, and active citizenship.
Tags for this project: active Mailinglist Newsgroup United Kingdom
