Get Satisfaction - with your Council?
From:
Tom Steinberg
Date:
May 28 09:49 UTC
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Hi Paul,
Just out of interest, you should have got a survey email from
FixMyStreet asking if your problem got fixed. If it didn't get fixed,
it will have automatically told you who your local councillors are and
asked you to write to them.
Did you take up the offer to write to you local councillors? If not,
can you tell us how we can change or improve the experience so that
you would have done?
The only other thing we can perhaps do is integrate the half-built
http://news.mysociety.org experiment that we did a couple of years
ago. But these things all take resources and it would be nice to know
what you think.
best,
Tom
2008/5/25 paul canning <paul.canning@gmail.com>:
> I blogged a response to this initiative, pointing out my experience with
fixmystreet - where my local complaint was surrounded by other ones yet to be
responded to.
>
> Here's my point
>
> 'I don't think councillors, almost all of them anyway, have yet seen what's
happening on such websites and thought - ahah! if I don't address these
community issues I might lose my seat. Whereas if these issues made it into the
local paper even in one letter to the editor, they would.
>
> There's a tipping point of recognition which none of the political parties
and only a few councillors have made.
>
> It will happen but there's a political recognition here as much as anything
else which they need to make and perhaps those advocating this type of
engagement need to bang on about.'
>
>
> Member profile for paul canning:
> http://groups.dowire.org/contacts/paulcanning
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