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July 18, 2006
Parliament and participatory media
Last night I went to a Hansard Society meeting about whether or not Westminster is ready for the age of participatory media.
It's not.
But that's not the important bit.
To be honest, I'm not entirely what the important bit was, but it all seemed to mean something, which is a start.
For those that didn't go, we basically learnt what the head of the BBC News website, the head of MySociety, the head of the Parliament website and Dawn Butler MP get up to, and how they thought Westminster needed to change to embrace this crazy technology we now possess.
The best answer to that question came from Dawn Butler, who suggested that MPs' offices should take account of the fact that they were designed with typewriters in mind and that things have moved on.
Aside from that, and the revelation that Sir Nicolas Winterton is a one-man anti-modernisation warrior, I can't remember a lot about it. Things are moving in a decent direction, but they have to move slowly, or else Parliament will collapse. Or something.
Oh yeah, MySociety is having a big ideas meeting thing on 7th November (I think). Keep it free, and look out for details.
Posted by pauldavies on July 18, 2006
