Tag: gov2.0

Public consultation or user testing?

  • July 8, 2010 at 11:34 am

  • The only difference between engaging someone in public consultation and engaging them in user testing is, as far as I can see, the type of reward they get for taking part. With user testing it’s easy: the client pays a company an extortionate amount of money to test their product; or, if it’s being done [...]

Arguments for open local data

  • June 3, 2010 at 12:01 pm

  • One of the challenges facing proponents of open data is persuading others of its value; particularly persuading the custodians of data that making it publicly available is a valuable thing to do, and is in their interest to do it. Dan Slee (Walsall Council) and Stuart Harrison (Lichfield District Council) and myself have compiled some [...]