UK Govt Crowdsources ideas to fight ‘pointless regulation’

1 July 2010

A new government website called Your Freedom was launched today, offering members of the public the opportunity to voice their ideas and comments to reduce pointless regulation and unnecessary bureaucracy. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg explained how this provides a real chance for the public to influence government policy: It’s a totally new way [...]

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UK Gov Spending Challenge: “Help us get more for less”

24 June 2010

Earlier today, UK Prime Minister David Cameron kicked off a consultation exercise on ways to reduce government spending. Together with Nick Clegg he has written to public service workers asking them to share their ideas on where to make spending cuts. A Spending Challenge website has been launched to solicit suggestions from Britain’s 6 million [...]

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A flood of data to create a data-literate citizenry

13 June 2010

In David Cameron’s first podcast as British Prime Minister he outlined plans to make Government more transparent and allow people to hold ministers and public services to account. One of the central themes of the podcast was that his government would be one that “gives power away to people instead it taking it from them.” [...]

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Coalition Programme for Government: Transparency pledges

20 May 2010

Earlier today, David Cameron and Nick Clegg unveiled their joint plans for government, which they say will  create the “radical” change the UK needs. The joint Programme for Government attempts to combine the best of both Conservative and Liberal Democrat election manifestos. The coalition partners said it represents a programme for five years of partnership [...]

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YourCountryYourCall: Ideas galore, but not without controversy

11 May 2010

Over 9,000 proposals have been received in the Your Country, Your Call competition, which closed for entries late last month. The competition sought to “identify and reward two proposals so big that, when implemented, they can help to secure prosperity and jobs for this and future generations”. It was intended to “rekindle our sense of [...]

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UK Conservative Open Government Ideas

24 April 2010

Earlier today, David Cameron outlined new Conservative plans “for real change in politics”. In a speech entitled “Big ideas to give Britain Real Change”, he described 9 ideas for real change in Politics. Ideas include: No more unelected Prime Ministers Opening up democracy: More postal primaries Expanding the Freedom of Information Act Neighbourhood budgets: giving [...]

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