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Pic Of The Day: Digital Democracy

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Alan Connor | 12:45 UK time, Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Earlier in February, Pete Clifton blogged here about the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Digital Democracy project and mentioned the pioneering work of web services like 's .


John O'Donovan (Principal Technical Architect, FM&T Journalism); Tom Steinberg (Director, mySociety); Jem Stone (³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Social Media Group)

Today's Pic Of The Day is of yesterday's afternoon-long brainstorm with Tom Steinberg and Francis Irving of mySociety, asking what the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ could learn from their various and and what unique ingredients the Beeb can bring to complement the work done by charities and volunteers.

If you have any thoughts about how the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ can fulfill its democratic public purposes as defined by the Royal Charter [pdf], please do leave a comment at Pete's post.

The Public Purposes of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ are as follows-- (a) sustaining citizenship and civil society; (b) promoting education and learning; (c) stimulating creativity and cultural excellence; (d) representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities; (e) bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK; (f) in promoting its other purposes, helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services and, in addition, taking a leading role in the switchover to digital television.

Alan Connor is co-editor, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Internet Blog.

Comments

  1. At 04:06 PM on 19 Feb 2008, wrote:

    What are the rights restrictions for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Parliament? Does the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ only have 7 day rights? For Lords debates? Commons? Committees?

    If we have permanent rights for any of these programmes why do they disappear from iplayer (and hence /programmes) after 7 days?

    If we added the ability to link from /programmes episode pages to theyworkforyou debate pages would anyone in ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Parliament populate these links? Would we be breaking any rules?

    Just wondering and wondering here cos i don't know who these questions should go to...

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