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Abstract: Bristol City Council is pleased to have commissioned this report in its role as evaluation lead for the Local e-Democracy National Project. Effective local leadership is at the heart of Government strategy. Leadership involves listening and responding to the views of communities; however, ?“democracy?” is not
simply a gift to be handed down from Government to authorities to citizens. This report concerns the role that authorities must also play in facilitating ground-up, community and citizen-led approaches to democracy, if they are to be truly effective leaders.
In facilitating ground-up e-democracy, the report considers how authorities have tried to harness the power offered by communication technologies to create and stimulate new forms of ?“civic-space?”. In this space, communities recognise the value of
bringing forward issues, ideas and solutions and local authorities see themselves as central, but not dominating, stakeholders in a public conversation.
As an evaluation, the report highlights some successes and some failures. However, an important overall conclusion is that if councils fail to grasp the opportunities offered by ground-up approaches to e-democracy, this will undoubtedly result in more subterranean conversations where authorities are
increasingly ?“spoken about?”, rather than ?“spoken to?”.
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