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Open Data Challenge - Ireland 11 Jul 2011 | 02:54 am
via data.fingal.ie Fingal County Council, Dublin City Council and a range of other partners recently hosted Ireland's first Open Data Challenge. An 18 hour event using local open data to create usefu...
Stirling poo - bag it and bin it 16 Jun 2011 | 08:32 pm
via flickr.com Is there anything ickier than dog poo in your path? Stirling Council has a print/radio/social campaign to remind people to bag it and bin it. And there's a great council web page whic...
Digital marketplace: campaigns and creativity 8 Jun 2011 | 07:14 am
via portfoliocreative.org All councils do campaigns to raise awareness and prompt action on everything from adoption to direct debit on council tax to what's on and more. And although details and bra...
Digitalkoot | fun in the archives 3 Jun 2011 | 09:19 pm
via digitalkoot.fi Lots of talk these days about 'gamification'. Turning mundane tasks into games, making them fun. Getting lots of people to do little bits and pieces of work, like tagging imagines ...
Transparency and text: Cllr Iain Roberts and council agendas 30 May 2011 | 09:51 pm
via flickr.com To be honest, I don't really understand why a councillor should have to do this, but it's good that one is. Councillor Iain Roberts (Lib Dem) of Stockport council is republishing coun...
Election tales 24 May 2011 | 01:46 am
via flickr.com As part of a community reporters project, local people used a variety of social media to cover the local elections in Kirklees. Some really interesting coverage of election night, cand...
NYC digital road map 18 May 2011 | 05:18 pm
via flickr.com "NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne today unveiled Road Map for the Digital City – a comprehensive strategy to make New York the nation’s leading di...
Mobile phone touring 2 May 2011 | 06:42 am
via flickr.com One cool thing I've seen on my hols in America is mobile phone tourist info stops. You simply phone the number and get the info that you might have had to get from one of those audio h...
Speak out Sutton! 7 Apr 2011 | 07:48 pm
via flickr.com The London Borough of Sutton, like a number of other councils, is using an online engagement tool to get residents' views and ideas - Speak Out Sutton It's a dialogue app powered by De...
Are you in? Obama and Facebook connect 5 Apr 2011 | 12:17 am
via picasaweb.google.com Normally, the LocalGov2.0 blog is reserved for matters local, sometimes state and regional. But never national! Oh dear, making an exception. But this is a good one, this is ...
