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Citizen engagement

June 2012

  • Welsh councils starting to tweet

    Welsh Audit Office finds most councils are sticking with paper, but use of blogs, Facebook and Twitter is growing
  • Cabinet Office joins the Open Identity Exchange

    Government confirms it is teaming up with the US-based open identity 'trust framework' provider Open Identity Exchange
  • Wokingham council gets private sector recognition for email contact

    Companies and councils queue up to learn from local authority's benchmarking success

May 2012

  • Crime map gets new data

  • Government launches new tax app

  • Mike Bracken: we will make government work better

  • Potential identity assurance suppliers receive invitation to tender

  • Cabinet Office issues social media guidance for civil servants

  • Cabinet Office publishes identity assurance 'good practice' guidance

April 2012

  • DWP makes first CloudStore buy

    Department for Work and Pensions has used cloud marketplace to purchase social media management software

March 2012

  • Budget pledge on online services: 'so simple even an MP can use them'

  • Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to become Whitehall adviser

  • Twitter

    Social media in Whitehall: it's inevitable mistakes will be made

  • Identity services reissue 'more cock-up than conspiracy': Mike Bracken

February 2012

  • brighton pier

    Writing a dedicated social media strategy? You're already doing it wrong

    Tracey Caldwell reports on how Brighton and Hove city council has baked social media into its operations

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