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Do politicians value social media more than civil servants?
Tue, 2007-02-13 12:59
I've been trying to work out where the line is between politicians on the one hand, who seem to be good at saying how important it is to listen to the conversations on social networks, and civil servants on the other, who seem to ignore or treat those conversations with less importance. Is there a line to be drawn between these two camps or is this all just false appearances? Can politicians just say what they want to do while the service needs to make a decision first before saying what they would like?
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Creating conversation spaces
I think politicans are potentially more conversational than civil servants online. There's some clues on attitudes in the recent Hansard Society Digital Dialogues report on some online government pilots. Unfortunately much of the political blogosphere replicates mainstream media as Matthew Taylor highlighted at the e-democracy '06 conference. So I would rephrase the question, and ask: how do we created trusted spaces in which people feel comfortable having policy conversations? Who are the champions for engagement online? Some here, hopefully ... so thanks to NESTA and Policy Unplugged for creating one such space.