The best of Notwestminster 2017 – a compilation of our Blogs, Photos, Videos, Slides, Notes & Sounds

Blogs

• #Notwestminster 2017 – Matt Stroud
  “…much like everyone else in the room, I was completely unprepared for just how emotional and powerful this story would be.”
• #Notwestminster 2017: and breathe – Diane Sims
  “We drew breath. We wiped away the tears. Then we got up and went about the business of trying to create a stronger local democracy.”
• Making it good for the hackers – Dave Mckenna
  “…notwestminster is like a tombola of ideas  – you just don’t know what you are going to get. More like a market place (or agora) there is no single keynote or one dominating idea. I like this. It’s serendipitous.”
• Experimenting with local democracy – Matt Clack
  “The spirit of Notwestminster is changing the way I do my job.”
• How can we create better local conversations? – Louisa Thomson
  “..can councils and residents build relationships that explore priorities and hopes proactively, rather than in response to a crisis?”
• It’s who you know – Joe Mitchell
  “I joined a group of people discussing those occasions where small groups of people get together to do something for where they live.”
• The One With Snow In It – Joe Mitchell
  “The idea is that if we could really throw some effort and money at a random local by-election, we could prove that there are things we can do to boost informed voter turnout at local elections generally.”
• Local democracy in action – a reflection on the #notwestminster conference – Sean Peacock and Sebastian Prost
  “We both found the conference to be very engaging and not like anything we had attended before”
• I went to Huddersfield to talk about local democracy for two days and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. – Louisa Thomson
  “Notwestminster has given me motivation and enthusiasm again at just the right time”
• What happens in Huddersfield doesn’t stay in Huddersfield:
  Ideas for improving engagement in local government from Notwestminster 2017
  “…we want to share some of the great stuff we heard.”
• The feeling of Huddersfield – Emma Nielsen and David Moynihan
  “…we wanted to explore local democracy in relation to decisions about the built environment.”
• Tales from Notwestminster – John Popham
  “This is the third year that Notwestminster has happened and the event just goes from strength-to-strength.“
• Notwestminster 2017 – Rowena Farr
  “The event involves a great combination of workshops, lightning talks as well as plenty of time for thought-provoking chats in-between.“
• Independence for Herefordshire? – Ben Proctor
  “This has been floating around my head for a while but some discussions I had while at Notwestminster over the past couple of days made me think I should write it down.“

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Storify

• Notwestminster PechaKucha 2017 – Local Democracy Bytes
• Democracy Experiments Day at #Notwestminster 2017 – Local Democracy Bytes
• Notwestminster 2017 – Local Democracy Bytes

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Photos

• #Notwestminster 2017 Friday morning – Anthony Mckeown
• #Notwestminster 2017 Friday afternoon – Anthony Mckeown
• #Notwestminster 2017 PechaKucha Night – Anthony Mckeown
• #Notwestminster 2017 morning – Anthony Mckeown
• #Notwestminster 2017 afternoon – Anthony Mckeown

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Videos

• Introduction to Notwestminster 2017 – Carl Whistlecraft
• Active Citizens – Jacqui Gedman (Lightning talk)
• What is a 21st Century Councillor? – Catherine Needham (Lightning talk)
• Jo Cox: my MP, my friend, my inspiration – Emily Warrillow (Lightning talk)
• Ideas Bazaar playlist – Notwestminster 2017 (13 videos)
• Notwestminster 2017 live stream – intro, Lightning talks & Ideas Bazaar
• 360 degree timelapse of the Notwestminster 2017 intro and talks – The Media Centre
• Pilot – Council News Bulletin – John Popham (a Democracy Experiments Day 2017 experiment)

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Slides

• Active citizens – Jacqui Gedman (Lightning talk)
• What is a 21st Century Councillor? – Catherine Needham (Lightning talk)
• Jo Cox – my MP, my friend, my inspiration – Emily Warrillow (Lightning talk)
• Why you should care about “clicktivism” – Kajal Odedra (Lightning talk)
• The Councillor Commission: preliminary findings – Colin Copus (Non-Lightning talk)
• Building a grassroots democracy – Edward Molloy (Lightning talk)
• Local conversations in local spaces – Louisa Thomson and Hannah Worth (workshop intro)

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Live notes

• Local conversations in local spaces
• The Great British By-Election
• Greater Manchester People’s Plan and owning democracy
• Upskilling and equipping local councillors to connect with citizens where they are
• Exploring open source democracy
• Mapping local issues
• Introducing the Civic Story Factory
• How can local government encourage people to engage?
• The feeling of a place

Added new notes since the day? Tweet us @LDBytes or email notwestminster@gmail.com to let us know.

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Playlist

• Notwestminster 2017 playlist on Spotify

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