UK: Winners of the Building Democracy Innovation Fund announced

Nine projects working to engage people in local and national decision-making have won funding from the government’s Building Democracy Innovation Fund, five of which are eParticipation projects:

• Yoosk.com: An online question time linking the public with local and central government.
  (Run by Thumbsize Ltd.)
• UK Feedback: An online forum for feedback about public services
• LocalEyes – The ‘Voice’: A web-based consultation tool to enable defined groups to have their say in decision making.
  (Run by The Shire Initiative.)
• All Hansard on TheyWorkForYou.com: To add the pre-2001 Hansard data to TheyWorkForYou.com, and build exploratory tools.
  (Run by MySociety.)
• Empowering the blind citizen: Providing training and tools to enable blind and partially sighted people to participate in e-democracy.
  (Run by Screenreader.net Community Interest Company.)

Find the complete list of the winning projects at epractice.eu

Tags: Building Democracy Innovation Fund, ePractice.eu, UK