Post in BBC local online plans and e-democracy

Feb 20 12:43 UTC

Hi Jill,

  Just took a look at oncom.org. Very good.

  You suggest that a similar site could easily be country wide.

  It already is. In fact it is worldwide. It is www.myverdict.net

  Best of luck with oncom.

  Roy Daine

Jill Sanders <jillmsanders@btopenworld.com> wrote:
  Why doesn't the BBC look at what we do at www.oncom.org.uk because this
could easily be country-wide, across every community? The great thing is
that it groups what the government likes to call "natural communities" into
boroughs, the democratic and to a certain extent the geographical local
context, plus communities can have their own interest groups too, to suit
themselves and the area where they live. It is iinfinitely adaptable as a
model and we know it works as it's grown, ground up and organically, over
ten years. There is certainly nothing centralised or top down about it and
the sheer numbers of people contributing the the websites in the network
keep it independent.
Best wishes
Jill