Birmimgham city council have a
Big City Plan but their portal for consultation shares many characteristics with Haringey's. As local blogger
Parboo puts it, "the plan is really quite hard to penetrate and the feedback mechanisms do not encourage a deepening of understanding or indeed a conversation."
Sound familiar?
Brum's active online community have decided to do something about it.
They have rewritten the plan in plain English and placed the new text next to the original, they provide a place to comment
and see other people's comment and develop the conversation. It's called
Big City Talk and its a pretty impressive piece of work.
I would also suggest that it is a great model for consultation and something from which we in Harringay and Haringey can learn.
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