UK Metro mayors budgets
14th May 2017
https://medium.com/@thedancingflea/the-west-midlands-combined-authority-where-does-the-money-come-from-40098bc22876 ...
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Author: eddowding
Using the Represent API for #GE2017
20th April 2017
What does it do? Represent and the Represent API are a toolbox for a modern democracy. The API includes the ability to: Create and verify profiles Create polls and questions, and vote on them. View, analyse, and weight results, including demographic...
Read MoreBringing digital disruption to government
23rd December 2016
A few weekends ago we were invited to speak at TransPolitica, a conference on real world policy changes for a radically better future. Together with Tim from the CivicTech coworking hub RainGods (home to Represent's London office) and Dan from MegaNexus we discussed...
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ProgCode network – civictech in the USA
18th December 2016
CivicTech is a global phenomena, arguably most coming of age during Obama's first campaign, and more recently Donald Trump's campaign has made powerful and inventive use of the resources available in the 2015 election to target and mobilise voters. The Bernie...
Read MoreDo we still need political parties?
18th December 2016
This article originally appeared in the New Statesman, 4 October 2016 Technology has changed everything. Apart from politics. When the Uber of democracy hits, will parties still have a role? It’s party conference season. Political parties appear to be doing well – about a...
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Only 3 days left to have your say on the role of faith and grammar schools in education in England
6th December 2016
The Government wants to know what you’d like from the education system. Represent.me has made it REALLY easy for you to tell them. I don’t know if you’ve ever taken part in a Government consultation before (most people haven’t) but they are...
Read MoreAdd any question to your Group or Collection
19th September 2016
If you have a Collection or are a group admin you'll know that you can add existing questions to them. This saves the site filling up with lots of similar questions, and adds weight to popular ideas. But you'll also know it's...
Read MorePutting @you at the heart of what we do
18th August 2016
A little quick and nice feature we added a few weeks ago was nicer ways of sharing your profile. With a hat-tip to the tried and tested format of twitter, instagram, facebook, skype, and .. well pretty much every user-centric service,...
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One X is not enough to determine your future.
24th June 2016
So what next? TL;DR: Democracy is being updated at https://rep.roundbear.org — the world’s first online peer-to-peer governance platform. Get involved. Ultimately, after the denial and amazement, this is our opportunity to make Great Britain do bold, brilliant, and inspiring things. We have no one...
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Your UK polling day toolkit – everything you need to get to the polls and vote
5th May 2016
Polling stations across the UK will be open today from 7am until 10pm today. We've put together everything your need to make your voice count. Find your polling station If you have your polling card to hand your polling station should be clearly...
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How do we make delegative democracy a reality? or “What do points mean?”
8th December 2015
Delegative democracy (aka ‘liquid democracy’) is what most people invent when answering the question “How do we make politics better?” We start at “well we should all be able to vote on everything”, but then realise we don’t want to vote...
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What we’ve been working on: sort by consensus, Android & iOS apps, improved design, and more
9th November 2015
It’s been a productive few months for us. With the new design you can now easily access the full power of Represent: location-awareness, topics, groups, comparing to other users, and far fewer distractions. We also added an iOS app to join...
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Will there be a European Spring? Or an Arab Summer? We’ll find out in 10 days.
5th November 2015
How do the attitudes of young people in Tunisia, Egypt, libya, Algeria, Morocco compare to those of young people in the UK? And how do those differ from the older people in those countries? That was the question given to us...
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We’re growing!
7th August 2015
Member snapshot as of today. 47,373 answers 838 people That's an average of 57 votes per person. Not bad when you realise that you'll only vote 14 times in general elections. ...
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Successful participatory democracy experiment is actually quite boring
5th August 2015
A common first reaction to the idea of more participative democracy is that dangerous and radical things will happen - ie the "we'll bring back hanging" cliché. So it is that I love this finding an experiment by our friends at...
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Good things to read
3rd August 2015
Inspired by the #SummerOfTech alternative summer reading list for MPs (and everyone) here are our picks, and some other good things we've been reading here at Represent. Our favourites: More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First by Steve Hilton Blueprint for a Revolution...
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Things we’ve been reading recently
11th June 2015
25% of Estonians electoral votes are cast online. Laws have been updated to address the issues of privacy, security and trust, without reverting to isolation and protectionism. Manuel Arriaga, author of the excellent Rebooting Democracy discusses the possibility of a "Citizen's Chamber" as an...
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This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
18th May 2015
via Bloomberg There are two main points to take from this graph. 1. Change is happening faster - that much is obvious. 2. Compassion is changing. This one's a little harder to discern, but either: a) Our 'circle of compassion' is expanding to include more...
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8 ways online democracy changes everything.
8th May 2015
The chances are you’re not going to get the MP you voted for — but that might not matter for very much longer. There is a quiet revolution taking place in democracy, bringing new thinking to how we take decisions together. For the...
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