Il Governo Britannico è desideroso di abbracciare la tecnologia per migliorare i servizi dei governi locali; ma prima è necessario un cambio di culture, dice The Guardian.
The government is providing ever more pilot schemes and opportunities to engage but increasingly fewer people believe that “getting involved” is a good use of their time.
This results in the same people who are already active citizens being offered many more opportunities to engage, whereas the individuals who have not engaged are not benefiting from these new opportunities. So just because new channels of engagement are built, they will not necessarily be used by new participants.


Last week, the UK think tank Demos launched the
Management guru Don Tapscott, the co-author of best-seller “Wikinomics”, wants to teach governments to harness the power of the Internet to reinvent democracy.
The method of selecting representatives for presenting the view of a constituency was deployed at the time when internet and mobile technologies were not available and there was no method of making a collective decision on policies to government the society.
From climate change to social care, innovation will be critical to meeting the public service challenges of the future. But traditional approaches to generating new ideas will not be enough. Rather than focusing on processes and pipelines, policymakers and service deliverers needs to harness the potential of citizens to be innovators in their own right.
Demos, the UK think tank for everyday democracy, has published a collection of essays by leading thinkers and practitioners that assesses how far the UK has already come towards a more collaborative style of government and sets out international case studies of some of the most interesting initiatives to date. It concludes by asking how future governments can use collaboration as a key design principle for transforming the UK’s public services.
Involve (an independent UK organisation focused on the practicalities of giving more power to ordinary people) has produced an “Evaluation Guide - Making a Difference: A guide to evaluating public participation in central government”, as a
Il simposio del Consiglio Europeo “e-democracy: nuove opportunità per aumentare la partecipazione civica”, avrà luogo presso il Palais de l’Europe, Strasburgo (Francia) dal 23 al 24 Aprile 2007.
Un numero crescente di comuni, istituzioni e comunità pubbliche/non-profit intorno al mondo sembrano stare scoprendo e adottando il ‘bilancio partecipativo’, ‘un processo di valutazione e di presa di decisioni democratico, nel quale i residenti ordinari di una città decidono come ripartire una parte del budget pubblico.’ (
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L’Europa festeggia 50 anni di pace e di progresso politico, ma nei prossimi 50 anni assisterà a cambiamenti massicci nella relazione tra l’elettorato e i politici grazie alla tecnologia.
Nell’era della cultura partecipativa il mondo della politica si sente spesso indietro, scrive 

Il dimissionario consigliere capo di Tony Blair, Matthew Taylor, teme che Internet possa alimentare la crisi nelle relazioni tra i politici e gli elettori.