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		<title>A more agile democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerrett Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A more effective Whitehall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This latest form of democratic engagement was enabled by the Government’s new e-petitions website which went live 2 weeks ago. This democratic innovation allows any member of the public to create a new petition or support an existing petition for debate in the House of Commons. The site has enabled the public to call for debate on important social and economic issues ranging from petrol prices to capital punishment to an EU referendum. It’s not the first time this government has pro-actively sought the views and opinions of the general public. The coalition has, arguably, gone further than any other government in its attempts to engage people with consultation exercises including the Spending Challenge and the Red Tape Challenge. But the recent riots provided an opportunity to see whether the new technology could hold up to an unprecedented level of activity. At peak, the site attracted over 12,000 hits per minute. Mark O’Neill, Head of HM Government’s Skunkworks, helps to put this figure into context, by explaining that it is the same number of visits that would be expected from the entire Directgov. The e-petitions site has had over 2 million visitors since launch, over 12 million page views, 12,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much does a government website cost?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hallsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent release of official data on government websites allows us to make some comparisons. In a straight comparison of costs, the ‘Your Freedom’ site nearly makes it into the cheapest 20% of government websites. But costs are only part of the story, of course: websites are also judged on how many visitors they attract. Higher costs may be justified on the basis that the site attracts more visitors. On this basis, the costs of &#8216;Your Freedom&#8217; appear to be justified: the site has met with &#8220;overwhelming demand&#8221; (FT, free registration required). In fact, it could be argued that more should have been spent on the site, since it crashed under the number of visits it attracted. Factoring in usage give us a better idea of which government websites are good value for money. We can get a crude &#8216;cost per visit&#8217; measure by dividing total costs by total visits. Initial headlines focused on the fact that www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk appears to cost £11.78 per visit, but these figures have been questioned, so we’ve excluded them from the graph below: But a simple cost per visit measure conceals massive variation. To understand this, see the second graph, below. This plots total costs [...]]]></description>
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