Presentation at the Making Localism a Reality conference in Kent October 2011

2. What are we trying to do today?

4. What do we mean by engage? Is engage even a real word? Would your voters use it? public-i.info/citizenscape

5. Do you think voters are fooled by engagement processes that are not linked to decisions? Is there a disconnection between the policy cycle and the engagement process? public-i.info/citizenscape

6. How do you think the people who signed the recent EU referendum petition felt about being ignored? Because that is how they see it….. public-i.info/citizenscape

7. How do the public want to engage? public-i.info/citizenscape

8. The World Wide Web was born with the mosaic browser in 1993 Children born the same year are now 18 public-i.info/citizenscape

10. This would be someone else’s problem if not for the fact we are seeing increases in all demographics 18-24 years olds are only 12% of the active online audience public-i.info/citizenscape

11. The public are becoming more connected and more vocal with it People have a digital wrapper around their lives public-i.info/citizenscape

13. But what does this mean for engagement? public-i.info/citizenscape

15. Co-production 29 March 2011 15 http://www.smartjustice.org/

16. Co-production Citizenscape a product by Public-i 16

18. The Social Web has a distinct culture 29 March 2011 18

20. Hyperlocalism 29 March 2011 20 http://www.harringayonline.com/

21. Hyperlocal sites found from recent research Citizenscape a product by Public-i 21 Source: http://curiouscatherine.wordpress.com

22. Using free mainstream tools Citizenscape a product by Public-i 22

23. And Government is increasingly active in this space public-i.info/citizenscape

24. Don’t ask people to come to your space Citizenscape a product by Public-i 24 http://askbristol.wordpress.com/

25. Coventry: Doing Facebook really well Citizenscape a product by Public-i 25 http://www.facebook.com/Coventry.West.Midlands

26. Twitter Gritter 29 March 2011 26 http://danslee.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/twitter-gritter-case-study-gritting-and-social-media/

27. YouChoose?? 29 March 2011 27 http://youchoose.yougov.com/centralgov

28. Your Freedom 29 March 2011 28 http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100823122417/http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/ Did we really crowdsource the Freedom bill?

29. Open 29 March 2011 29 http://www.walsall.gov.uk/walsall24.htm

30. You can use any of these tools once you know what you want to do public-i.info/citizenscape

31. Where could technology fit for you?

36. Run Open Processes Citizenscape a product by Public-i 36

37. What might this mean for the elected representative? public-i.info/citizenscape

39. Public 29 March 2011 39

40. Open Data 29 March 2011 40 http://data.london.gov.uk/

41. There is competition for traditional politics public-i.info/citizenscape

42. Digital Activism 29 March 2011 42 http://bccdiy.co.uk/

43. Digital Activism 29 March 2011 43 http://www.avaaz.org/en/

44. Digital Activism 29 March 2011 44 http://ukuncut.org.uk/

45. Digital Activism Citizenscape a product by Public-i 45

47. Your event horizon should be 5…10…15..20 years in the future What kind of relationship with citizens will you have then? How will you help shape that now? public-i.info/citizenscape

48. Citizenscape a product by Public-i Citizenscape a product by Public-i | Presented to Client x 48 Thank you for your time …… and more importantly….what do you think??? C a t h er [email_address] C u riouscatherine.wordpress. c o m www.public-i.info Presented by Catherine Howe, Chief Executive Public-i