Get new ideas and suggestions

‘Crowdsourcing’ is the idea of getting a large number of people to contribute ideas or predictions in order to improve decision-making. Along with techniques such as publishing documents online for public comment, and providing more conventional online suggestion boxes and feedback forums, these offer great potential to increase the quantity and quality of feedback you receive and open up feedback to audiences who wouldn’t have the time or inclination to participate in other ways.

Transport Select Committee – evidence via Twitter

Nice approach to getting evidence from commuters via video on Twitter by the Select Committee: Were you affected by the … Read more » – Transport Select Committee – evidence via Twitter

Public Reading Stage: Scrutinise Bills before Parliament

The Cabinet Office launched its second pilot ‘Public Reading Stage’ – a commitment from the UK Government’s Coalition Agreement of … Read more » – Public Reading Stage: Scrutinise Bills before Parliament

Long term conditions: Department of Health

The Department of Health is using a consultation mini-site to source comments from people with an interest in the management … Read more » – Long term conditions: Department of Health

Focus on Enforcement

The Better Regulation Executive (part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills), created a site for people to report … Read more » – Focus on Enforcement

Nottinghamshire Healthcare & Patient Opinion

Nottinghamshire Healthcare linked up with the independent patient feedback service Patient Opinion to host feedback about the trust’s service on … Read more » – Nottinghamshire Healthcare & Patient Opinion

Overseas Territories Consultation – FCO

The FCO’s consultation on the UK Overseas Territories set out six key questions for public comment. Respondents could also reply … Read more » – Overseas Territories Consultation – FCO

Moderation policy

House rules are a useful way to keep discussion online on-topic, clean and constructive. Writing them down and posting them … Read more » – Moderation policy

Open Data Users Group: crowdsourcing

The Cabinet Office Open Data User Group is using Delib’s Dialogue App to source ideas for how the Group should … Read more » – Open Data Users Group: crowdsourcing

London Conference on Somalia: Building Momentum – Matt Baugh

Matt Baugh is the British Ambassador to Somalia, and his blog – one of around 90 on the FCO’s blogs … Read more » – London Conference on Somalia: Building Momentum – Matt Baugh

Maps and apps – mobile apps for digital health

Maps and Apps is a crowdsourcing project run by the Department of Health, which sourced examples of or ideas for … Read more » – Maps and apps – mobile apps for digital health

Red Tape Challenge

The Red Tape Challenge is a cross-government crowdsourcing project to identify unnecessary regulation. Discussions are structured by theme, and time-limited, … Read more » – Red Tape Challenge

Money Saving Expert discussion on community buying

Straightforward partnership with MoneySavingExpert.com to get discussion going in the forum about the new policy on community buying and collective … Read more » – Money Saving Expert discussion on community buying