Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Government response to Crowdsourcing "a failure"
Coalition 'crowdsourcing' attempts 'a failure'
The Telegraph reports that "The first attempt by the Coalition government at “crowdsourcing” appears to have been met with failure with not one Whitehall department willing to change its policies"
Was there an element of cynicism in the crowdsourcing attempt, in trying to involve people in cuts and getting them partly to take responsibility?
HoL has also engaged in a well-meaning attempt to Crowd Source at the local level for ideas as to how or where to effect needed savings in our local authority.
Was there any evidence that local council departments (let alone central government) would be interested in the slightest in taking notice of suggestions from the public in this regard? Should there be any surprise about this?
The failure is more conspicuous at central government level: at least Haringey never pretended they were interested in the public's suggestions: but thousands of people went to the trouble of responding on government department websites where they had solicited suggestions. (The Guardian on the same subject here).
The Telegraph reports that "The first attempt by the Coalition government at “crowdsourcing” appears to have been met with failure with not one Whitehall department willing to change its policies"
Was there an element of cynicism in the crowdsourcing attempt, in trying to involve people in cuts and getting them partly to take responsibility?
HoL has also engaged in a well-meaning attempt to Crowd Source at the local level for ideas as to how or where to effect needed savings in our local authority.
Was there any evidence that local council departments (let alone central government) would be interested in the slightest in taking notice of suggestions from the public in this regard? Should there be any surprise about this?
The failure is more conspicuous at central government level: at least Haringey never pretended they were interested in the public's suggestions: but thousands of people went to the trouble of responding on government department websites where they had solicited suggestions. (The Guardian on the same subject here).
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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[labelling] "alternative" doors should of course read "alternate" doors.
There would be no compulsion, no fines. To the extent it worked, it would be self-enforcing. It would be irrelevant with light traffic and possibly impossible at peak times, as you suggest.
The idea might be effective at medium-busy periods. It might improve flow a little. And on a giant system like the Underground, that might mean a lot in aggregate.
I offered this suggestion in the days before "crowd sourcing" and formal mechanisms to gather ideas (and then flush them away!). There appears to be no evidence that a named crowd sourced idea has been adopted, but that doesn't' mean that those ideas are worthless.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Following this discussion yesterday, up pops a link in my inbox this morning to an article in The Register about the very issue with which Clive started this conversation. It carried the much more evocative headline, "UK.gov smiles and nods at commentards"
Usefully it links to the Government response, the original consultation portal, as well as highlighting two further consultations; the Treasury's Spending Challenege and a government-wide Civil Liberties consultation portal Your Freedom. Apparently the third highest-rated suggestion on this site is "Allow us to comment on your YouTube videos!".
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I read the index page as saying " UK.gov smiles and nods at conmen ..."
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A FURTHER small note on the likelihood of Dell taking notice of what its customers tell it via feedback (also from El Reg).
Warning contains strange US English: ... we are still scoping remediation plans as well as how to communicate with the sales teams — we recommend that we continue our reactive posture with the media ...
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