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Politicos meeting gamers – a few preliminary thoughts

Through the Political Innovation project, I’m helping to promote a meetup tomorrow evening between people who have experience and interests in gaming, and those of us who are very focussed on...

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Democracy & the healthy society: The chicken and the egg.

Chad. High disease prevalence and not much democracy Amartya Sen has powerfully made the case that democracy brings with it guarantees of social justice. Summarising for speed, Sen has argued that...

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Will networked representation reduce the power of political parties?

“The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” George Burns Over the next few weeks, my MP (a newly-elected Tory) will go through the parliamentary lobby in support of...

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The 99% and the False Consensus Effect

Apologies for the light posting here. I’m mid-project on a few issues that I’d normally blog about here, so blogging will be a bit uneven for the time being. In the meantime, here’s a quick stop-gap...

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Finding all of the interesting data within one local authority area

A while ago, I posted here giving reasons why I thought it would be a good idea to start involving school pupils in the processing of public data. There are strong democratic arguments for doing this...

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Why would school pupils want to mix data up?

Firstly, a big thank-you to everyone who commented on the previous posting here on local data sources.  Aside from the comments, I’ve been given loads of really useful pointers via email and Twitter,...

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Collecting data about the local voluntary sector

Thanks again for all of the feedback on those open data posts recently. Just to recap, I’m helping to organise an open data project for some school pupils within the a London borough in the new year....

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How to destroy public faith in democracy

I generally dislike the airy way cynicism is worn like a badge of pride around political conversations. When people say “that’s a typical politician’s answer”, the phrase ‘you get the politicians you...

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Where Geeks can contribute to democracy

After attending the Westminster Skeptics ‘Geek Manifesto‘ event the other night, I’m now leafing through my shiny signed copy of Mark Henderson’s new book. This isn’t a review (I’ve not finished...

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Schools Data Day project – report (pt1)

A while ago, I mentioned that I wanted to get some school pupils together with some data analysts to see if we could organise a ‘data day’. The good news is that (with the kind help of Deloittes and...

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New leaf

This blog, as you can see, has ground to a halt. Nothing in over 18 months. I’ve also noted that I’ve had a malware attack and there are lots of links urging you to buy tablets that help to stiffen the...

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