What we’ll be working on at our Local Democracy Maker Day #LDMaker16
Local Democracy Maker Day
Friday 12th February 2016
The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield HD1 1RL
What is a Maker Day?
Our Maker Days are a chance to collaborate with others who care about local democracy on issues that we choose together. Our focus at this Maker Day will be on responding to some of our Design Challenges for Local Democracy.
We want to turn our discussions around local democracy and digital into some practical tools that we can all use to make democracy work better for us – and we hope you’ll be part of it. You don’t need any previous experience to join in – we’ll be learning from each other as we go along.
We’ve chosen three challenges for us to focus on during the day, based on things that participants of the Notwestminster network have shown keen interest in recently.
Our three Local Democracy Design Challenges are:
- Social Decision Making: Councils make many important decisions yet the people who are affected rarely have their say. How can we get people involved in local policy making so that they can influence the decisions that affect them?
- Real Representation: The job of the local councillor is to represent their constituents yet their wards can include as many as 25,000 people, all different, all special. How can councillors better reach out to people in their community so that everyone can be properly represented?
- Digestible Democracy: Local democracy needs to involve the widest range of people and yet the format of reports and the use of jargon puts off all but the most dedicated. How can we present local decision making so it’s less obscure like modern jazz, and more popular, like rock and roll?
Who is it for?
- Digital makers
- Open data advocates
- Local government officers
- Councillors and candidates
- Community activists
- Hyperlocals
- Voters of today and tomorrow
Want to join in?
Free tickets are available now:
Other event info
Taking part at the venue or online? Here’s some other information you might find useful:
We are…
We are Local Democracy Bytes and the wider #notwestminster gang. Our Maker Day is part of our collaboration with LocalGov Digital Makers. It’s about turning our discussions around local democracy and digital into some practical tools that we can all use to make democracy work better for us.
With thanks to our sponsors
Our Maker Day is part of Notwestminster 2016, two days of rock n roll local democracy kindly sponsored by:
We are #Notwestminster 