Ideas Bazaar 2015

Get involved

At #notwestminster 2015 we set a big challenge for all our participants. We asked you to come up with three new ideas for redesigning local democracy in each workshop. At the end of the day we brought everyone together for our Ideas Bazaar, where we shared our ideas and began to exchange the resources and skills to take them forward.

Thank you very much to everyone who has already got involved in developing these ideas since the event. Want to join in? You can find all the ideas and discussions from the workshops here and make contact with other participants.

Ideas Bazaar index
48 ideas for redesigning local democracy

 

 

Workshop session one

• Doing devolution without permission

• Democratic Content – Local By Default, Engaging By Design

• Digital democracy: A panacea for youth disengagement?

• Open Local Government: How can it be spread? 

• What is the ideal local?

 

Workshop session two

• 20 Ways to Connect Open Data and Local Democracy

• Ballot for Bondi Beach

• Participatory Budgeting

• The disconnect between democracy and services 

 

Workshop session three

• Digital Local Democracy – The 21st Century councillor

• Experimenting with participation, lean startup approach

• A public values approach for using digital technologies to enhance local democracy

 

Workshop session four

• The Council of 2045

• User Stories for Local Democracy

• Digital democracy and deliberation

• Can civil society organisations offer local government any ideas on citizen engagement?

 

Can we help?

Please Contact us if there’s anything we can do to help you with developing these ideas. You can also join in the conversation on twitter by following us @LDBytes and #notwestminster.

Ideas Bazaar up next. Time to sign up for redesigning local democracy. #notwestminster pic.twitter.com/uCcQ69BuhZ

— LocalDemocracy Bytes (@LDBytes) February 7, 2015

I think it’s an Ideas Bazaar, not Bizarre Ideas #notwestminster

— John Popham (@johnpopham) February 7, 2015