It seems that last week youth had a great influence in the outcome of the elections. Their turnout was firstly surprisingly high: Labour MP David Lammy claims it reached up to 72%, although a YouGov survey only puts it at...
Read MoreThe DUP have agreed to support Theresa May without forming a coalition. Their 10 MPs take the Conservatives over the 326 seat line to form a government by 2 seats. But how do their views compare across key issues? Through the general...
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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 MoreThis 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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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...
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>>> Ready to have your say? Start here. The UK government has put together a new set of ideas (PDF) for making more good school places available for everyone in England. You may have heard about them recently through the grammar school debate. That's covered,...
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An occasional series where we publish briefing notes we've put together for our own internal use that we think might be useful to others. What does devolution in England mean? Unlike in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the whole country or...
Read MoreIf 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...
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Thank you to everyone who contributed to questions on food waste! We compiled all your responses and sent a report to the Food Waste in England Inquiry, run by the UK Parliamentary Committee for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. You...
Read MoreA 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,...
Read MoreWe are looking for a community manager to join the team! Are you someone who would love to work with, and empower, our members to change how their voices are heard in decisions? Someone to help people know we exist and then...
Read MoreWhether you voted for Leave or Remain, the EU Referendum results have shown we need new ways to work together, to listen to each other, to discuss and debate and vote and take action. With this in mind, we held an...
Read More'How do you compare with Theresa May?' is a new collection of questions we launched yesterday. In this post I aim to explain how we went about creating it, some of the challenges doing so poses and how we plan...
Read MoreYesterday we launched a collection of questions that allowed users to compare themselves with the views and policies of the, now, UK prime minister Theresa May. We've done a few comparison quizzes like this before, for the London Mayoral elections and...
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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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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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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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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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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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