Update: As you'll see here we've had to revise the numbers for Birmingham City Council. The maps and numbers should now reflect higher figures for the city council.) At the LGA conference on Wednesday (1pm) we'll be holding a short session about Twitter, entitled 'Anyone can use Twitter. The question is why should you?' It's just ...
It doesn't matter how important you accept the advent of the Police and Crime Commissioners are, the prospect of voting in a new political post to oversee police forces in England and Wales has hardly captured the public's attention. It's a point that's been made before, but there's a risk that, come the 15th of November, ...
We'll be holding the next Public-i user group on Monday the 19th of March with the rather exciting theme 'rebooting democracy'. Below I've set out a little bit about what we mean by that - and the agenda. But first, the essentials... The user group starts at 10.30am on the 19th of March at the Hallam Conference ...
I only went to the first day (the Friday) of Brighton's second CityCamp, but from all I've heard the weekend was a big success. I expect we'll get a lot more from others who were there over the weekend, but I thought I'd just sum up a little of what happened on Friday before that. As ...
At Public-i we've started talking to a number of police authorities, the agencies that will be replaced by the offices of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) when they are elected on the 15th of November this year (2012). The PCCs will take over responsibility for overseeing 41 police forces on the 16th of November, signalling a ...