Is it worth funding ICELE, asks Coleman
From:
David Wilcox
Date:
Apr 06 17:07 UTC
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Hi Mary
I'm sure it is tough working with local authorities ... but I'm still
puzzled by why ICELE has (so far as I can see) no interactive online
presence, and failed to engage with the debate on the Bristol blog,
yet local politicians like yourself are great bloggers.
Can't citizens expect the e-democracy institutions they are funding to
emulate the best not the worst practice ... especially if they are
meant to be a 'centre of excellence'?
Daviud
On 5 Apr 2008, at 16:14, Mary Reid wrote:
> One thing that ICELE has been tasked with is working with local
> authorities
> through the regions to encourage them to use edemocracy tools. The
> work it
> has done in the background with council officers and elected members
> has
> probably been invisible to the general population except, of course,
> in the
> gradual use of tools.
>
> I think some of you would be surprised at where we have to start
> from - we
> are still having to persuade some (usually older) councillors that
> making
> their email address public might be a good move! It's a very
> different world
> out there!