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
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
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)
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)
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
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