The WeMedia PitchIt final have asked me for a 65-word pitch. How does this look? Policybrief aims to help the civic conversation around policy to compete with the often-deafening political debate. We’re building an attractive useable open source web facility to make this happen. It will enable professional producers and users of high-quality policy-related content [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Assistive technology
For a useful introduction to how assistive technology supports web-browsing for people with different ability sets, have a look at the new Ability Net ‘Easy’ website.
Policybrief – shortlisted!
A few months ago, I noticed the Ashoka ‘Changemakers’ competition ‘The Power of Us – Re-imagine media‘- an award scheme looking for ideas. I tried out an idea that I’ve been nursing for some years – Policybrief. It’s a site that I had built (badly) back in 2001. It was launched at the ICA by [...]
An instructive online consultation
Though there are lots of ways to make a document available for commenting online, I’ve still not seen anything as effective as the use of a slightly hacked blog in allowing the public to get into the detail of a document. A few years ago, the Power Enquiry made it’s findings available in this way. [...]
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