Post in London Parks e-Participation & e-Voting & e-Budgeting

Nov 25 10:31 UTC

Mayor Boris Johnson calls on Londoners to vote to 'Help a London Park' Greater
London Authority (press release) - London,England,UK
Londoners can vote to choose which parks get the £400000 simply by logging on
to www.london.gov.uk/parksvote , by text message or by
postal vote. ...

This MAY encourage participation but it uses an unsophisticated voting system
that might well fail to reflect the voters' real
wishes and it takes a very unsophisticated approach to budgeting.  Given some
of the budgeting tools that are now in the public
domain, a much more dynamic approach could have been taken to asking
participants for their views on the allocation of all the money
available.  But maybe this is a small acorn .......

James

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