Is this the future for Labour Party policy-making
Peter Kenyon Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 11:23:14 AM GMT 
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The LabOUR Commission is working on a web-based facility in collaboration with a volunteer from My Society that could spice up political activity whatever the time of year. Let’s call it democracy.
The facility enables proposals to be placed in the public domain and anyone who is e-literate to comment on each section, which can be as short as a sentence, or bullet point. Comments are open for anyone to read, and the facility has the capacity to enable the weight of opinion about the proposals to be highlighted - "hot-words".
You can see the facility for yourself at:
In my capacity as Chair of Save the Labour Party, I have used the same facility to make Gordon Brown’s paper: “Extending and renewing party democracy” available (hopefully) to Party members .
You can see the facility for yourself at:
In my capacity as Chair of Save the Labour Party, I have used the same facility to make Gordon Brown’s paper: “Extending and renewing party democracy” available (hopefully) to Party members .
Today, I spoke to the Labour Party NEC Chair Mike Griffiths and sent him an eMail in my capacity as Chair of Save the Labour Party asking if the Labour Party would be willing to make Gordon Brown's consultation document available on the Party's MpURL system in this new format. Then we could all see what CLPs, branches, affiliates (as well as individuals) who posted their comments thought about each section.
It could revolutionise the way we do our politics - and make it increasingly difficult for elected politicians to ignore informed, evidence-based opinion.
We are working on ideas using this technology to give more weight to collective decisions in a democratic socialist party as the Labour Party is. This means working out ways of enabling branch and CLP views to be separated and given more weight than those of e-literate individuals.
Useful, or just another gimmick?
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