Voicebox bid feedback from CLG

In the spirit of the open way in which we developed the Voicebox bid for Digital Mentors, I wanted to share with you the feedback we’ve had from CLG. There’s a lot in here which is positive and also some lessons which we need to learn. Overall, it seems that the Media Trust’s bid met more of the criteria for what CLG were looking for from the Digital Mentors project, so it must have been a great bid. We’re really looking forward to finding out more about Media Trust’s plans.

Download the PDF of CLG’s feedback on the Voicebox bid.

As I’ve said before, even though we’re very disappointed with the outcome, the process of developing the bid has to go down as our most successful failure of the last year. Open collaboration has now become an approach we’re embedding within our organisational culture.

We’re currently looking at how we can encourage decision-makers to move towards more open policymaking and support practitioners to share ideas and good practice via a Digital Engagement blog. Please come and take part at www.digitalengagement.org. In the coming weeks and months, we aim to use the site to develop a bottom-up Digital Manifesto which can be used by partners and presented to government to inform policymakers. We’re in the very early stages of this, so please let us have your feedback about ideas for shaping the blog.

Thanks again for all your support for the Digital Mentors bid and I’m sorry we’ve not been successful.