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  • #notwestminster and recreating local democracy

    Posted on 05/02/2016 by Ed Hammond | local democracy, notwestminster

     In a couple of Saturdays’ time an event called #notwestminster is happening. A group of people who are interested in local democracy will be getting together to talk about how it might be made more local and more democratic.I didn’t attend the inaugural #notwestminster last year, but I heard jolly good things about it so not only do I have a ticket booked, I’ve also ended up volunteering to run a workshop. This blogpost is in part an attempt to rationalise in my own mind what I might cover (taking the lead from Nick Booth).I want my workshop ...

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  • Reflecting on #localgovcamp and the Local Democracy Maker Day

    Posted on 15/09/2015 by Ed Hammond | governance and scrutiny, local democracy, notwestminster

      Last Friday I was a local democracy maker.The Local Democracy Maker Day is a fringe event held the day before the ever popular, and never-not-unhashtagged #localgovcamp (which is a sort of self-assembly conference and meetup for local government types). The purpose of the maker day is to chew over some big challenges in local democracy and to work towards some relatively straightforward solutions.The emphasis was on technology as a means to enhance local democracy but there was more to the day than just this. I participated in a group looking at the third challenge, on “digestible democracy” - ...

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