Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are limited so if you are interested
please contact Nicola Bell on 01883 344 799 or by email at nicola@headstar-events.com
Supporters:
The Hansard Society is the UK’s leading independent, non-partisan political research and education charity. We aim to strengthen parliamentary democracy and encourage greater public involvement in politics.
Our work is based on the belief that an effective parliamentary system is central to a successful democracy. At the heart of our work is the principle that civic society is most effective when its citizens are connected with the institutions and individuals who represent them in the democratic process. For more information about the Hansard Society and its programmes of work, visit www.hansardsociety.org.uk.
Founded in 1986, Socitm is the professional for ICT strategists and managers within local authorities and other public services. It provides a widely respected forum for the promotion, use and development of ICT best practice. Through the provision of consultancy, reports, benchmarking services, events and training it is playing a leading role in the transformation of local public services facilitated by ICT. It has now up to 2000 members and continues to grow.
One example of its role is the Socitm Insight research programme. Socitm Insight is a subscription service to which over 530 local authorities and other public and private sector organisations now belong. It identifies and encourages good ICT management practice.
Socitm Insight has produced a series of comprehensive and detailed guides on all the major ICT themes linked to the critical issues of the day, which provide valuable advice and support for ICT practitioners. For example, it publishes each year its Better connected report into the state of websites in the local public sector.
Involve are public participation specialists; bringing institutions, communities and citizens together to accelerate innovation, understanding discussion and change. Involve makes a practical difference by delivering the highest quality public participation processes possible as well as undertaking rigorous research and policy analysis into what works. Involve is newly registered as a charity.
Involve has transformed how leading public bodies and companies engage, including: Shell International, the OECD, Ministry of Justice, Communities and Local Government, the European Commission, the States of Jersey, the Sustainable Development Commission, the BBC, the NHS Centre for Involvement, the Cabinet Office and numerous Local Authorities.
mySociety has two missions. The first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to use the internet most efficiently to improve lives.
* mySociety runs most of the best-known democracy and transparency websites
in the UK, sites like TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem.
* mySociety is a not-for-profit company that builds websites of a democratic
bent for other people, such as the No 10 Downing Street Petitions Website,
for the Prime Minister’s Office.
* mySociety is a community of volunteers and (paid) open source coders.
PEP-NET (Pan European eParticipation NETwork)
PEP-NET is a European Commission funded project which aims to establish a pan-European network exchanging ideas and information about 'e-participation' - online dialogue, discussion, debate and consultation. The aim is to enhance all aspects of the democratic process including political debate, lobbying and campaigning, ensuring all voices are heard.
The PEP-NET consortium comprises 20 participants from 12 EU Member States including government agencies, NGOs, consultants, scientists and researchers. The lead member is TuTech Innovation GmbH in Germany, and other members include Headstar in the UK, organiser of E-Democracy '08; the City of Hamburg; the Danish Technological Institute; Issy Media in France and the Associazione Democrazia Elettronica e Partecipazione Pubblica in Italy.
For further information please contact the Co-ordinator:
Rolf Lührs
TuTech Innovation GmbH
email: luehrs@tutech.de
Exhibitors:
In keeping with the longstanding social commitment of its founder, Reinhard Mohn, the Bertelsmann Stiftung is dedicated to serving the common good. The organisation was founded in 1977 and is a think tank which works operatively as an agent for social change. As a private operating foundation, its primary goal is to make a meaningful and enduring contribution to society. The focus is on projects that can decisively influence society's long-term viability.
The Bertelsmann Stiftung uses its knowledge and expertise to stimulate lively dialogue on the most pressing issues of our day and to provide policymakers with new momentum. Working with a wide range of partners, the Bertelsmann Stiftung seeks to identify social problems and challenges early on and develop exemplary solutions to address them.
The focus is put on areas where it has built competence through years of experience. The foundation employs some 300 highly qualified people, of whom 185 work in project management.
To foster creativity and synergy, staff members work together in project teams - often on several projects at a time and in more than one subject area.
The teams work toward improved education, a just and efficient economic system, a preventative healthcare system, a vibrant civil society and greater international understanding.
The foundation's nonprofit work is funded predominantly by income earned from its shares in Bertelsmann AG.
Delib is a digital democracy company providing government organisations around the world with a suite of open source software and apps designed to facilitate the democratic process.
Our main focus of work is in the sphere of policy consultation and crowd-sourcing. Over the summer the Cabinet Office and Treasury used our "Dialogue App" to run their Your Freedom and Spending Challenge crowd-sourcing processes. Most recently, we launched Citizen Space - an open source consultation and engagement platform developed in collaboration with the Government.
To find out more about our democracy apps, visit: www.Delib.co.uk
Public-i
Public-i is the leading provider of strategies and technologies for engaging people in local democracy.
We work with the Public Sector at a local level to provide cost effective and innovative products which create democratic and social value from new technologies.
We have been serving this sector for more than a decade, which means we’ve kept our existing clients up to speed with the very latest developments in eDemocracy and social media. We do this by constantly developing strategies, products and services that are designed to make it as easy as possible for our clients to make the most of new technologies.
EuroPetition
EuroPetition is a network of experts supporting citizens who want to petition the European Parliament or any other European institution.
The network was created out of a European funded project which looked at trialling the coordination and submission of local epetitions and cross-border pan-European europetitions to the European Parliament during 2010, from 5 regions working with clusters of 19 Local Authorities in Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK, and potentially involving over 8 million citizens across the EU.
The EuroPetition process has been important in helping the European Commission determine best practice for the upcoming European Citizen’s Initiative.
The ambition of Race online 2012 is to ensure that everyone in the UK can enjoy the benefits of being online.
There are nine million adults in the UK who've never used the Internet. Over a third of these people are socially excluded and over six million are 65 years old or over. These people are missing out on what is now, for most of us in the UK, the primary route to information, education, jobs and customer savings.
We are building a cross-sector network of partners, spanning the public, private and charity sectors, to inspire, encourage, and support everyone in the UK to get online by the end of the Olympic year.
rol's mission is to re-energise local democracy, by empowering citizens and the community with new ways of taking part in local government. We have over a decade of experience, delivering solutions for community portals, online consultation, and customer satisfaction measurement. We work with central government, local authorities, partnerships, businesses and community groups.
Media Partner:
Total Politics is the UK's leading monthly political lifestyle magazine.
Each issue carries interviews with some of the biggest names in British politics, as well as thought-provoking features, hard-hitting opinion, political history and culture. In addition, Total Politics is the only British magazine which provides robust practical advice on the art and science of political campaigning and communication. Total Politics is unashamedly positive about the political process and committed to delivering consistently entertaining and informative content for individuals with more than a passing interest in politics.
Left Foot Forward is a political blog for progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, policy, and current affairs. We are Britain’s No.1 left-wing blog as voted by the readers of Total Politics magazine and Will Straw was named one of the “best political pundits on the web” by the Observer. We have been cited in The Economist, Financial Times, Sun, Guardian, Times, and Spectator among many other print and online publications.
Catch21 is a charitable production company based at Westminster which produces events, programmes and videos to help give the next generation a voice.
In order to fund our youth engagement projects we offer a range of multi-media services at high quality and very low rates to prospective customers. We have several clients at present including the Council of Europe, the UK Parliament and The Independent newspaper to name a few.