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Scrutiny in the Spotlight workshop
Role of the Networked Councillor in Scrutiny
Catherine Howe, Public-iNovember 2013
What’s the plan?
Explore what we mean by networked councillor
Discuss some of the tools which they might use
Talk about what this means for scrutiny
Gaze into the future a bit
Self Publication: Disintermediation of the Media
Virtual Community and Social Networking: Wide scale use of Networked Power
Collaborative Culture: Creating a sharing economy
Radical Openness: Disruption of the democratic relationship
Networked Technology: Smart Cities and new streams of information
Customization, Making and Self-Service: Disruption of manufacturing and the industrial economy
Technology or Social Change?
Any of these disruptions might be a point of entry for how someone thinks about digital
So what is a Networked Councillor?
An effective community leader in a digital and networked world
The range of networked behaviours
Communicative Tell people what you have done
We have developed a model of Networked Councillor behaviours
Collaborative Discuss with people what you are doing
Co-productive Agree with people what you could do together
Digital tools are important.
Networked thinking is essential.
Here and Now
There and Then
One to One
Broadcast
Networked
This is a whole system change but in a democratic system the elected
representatives are crucial
We need to create Networked Councillors.
This needs more than just showing them how to use Twitter.
We limit ourselves by simply considering changes to the way we communicate
What kind of tools are we talking about?
Good uses for content creation on a range of devices
Smart phones Quick video/audio interviews Photography Twitter
iPad/tablets Twitter Creating pictures, video and audio Email, blog reading Light editing of video, audio, pictures
Laptop Blogging, writing, editing Full editing of media (pictures, video, audio) Detailed work – spreadsheets, etc. Responding in detail to emails, blogs (commenting)
Some examples of online tools & their uses
Blogging
Can be updated regularly and posts (like this one) don’t have to be long
Allows residents to comment on issues – and for councillors to respond
You can go into detail and combine different media (words, pictures, video)
Audience can include anyone (you don’t need an account to read and is easy to publicise)
http://www.cllrandrewwallis.co.uk/unrestricted-filming-at-cornwall-council-meetings/
Great for showing the full range of your views
Allows quick sharing of media content (any content)
Can connect to much wider group, who often are unlikely to use other social media
Great for managing large number of friends
Can run pages (public) and profile (public or private) separately
Facebook algorithms make some aspects of using it abstruse
Privacy issues for some – in particular keeping private/public separate
https://www.facebook.com/Alison.Her
Great for finding people and being social
Great for quick responses and conversations
Share links to content (news, blog posts, videos)
A social tool – for talking with others, not for broadcast
Audience is smaller than than Facebook
Great for helping to build links with individuals and organisations (through reciprocity)
https://twitter.com/jasonkitcat
Great for finding people and sharing news
Shows network of connections
Demonstrates skills and experience (good for digital footprint)
Establishes links with business community
Audience is professional and (mostly) employed
Difficult to see full profiles
You have to pay for full access
uk.linkedin.com/pub/councillor-webb/1a/23/393
Best for managing your formal network
4,489 live viewsCoveritLive interactive chat had 3,981 page views & 242 comments#ccwebcast trended on Twitter
“I strongly believe that these numbers prove that by enabling people to take an active role in the debate, by marrying up
the available technology with transparency and democracy - a direct line into the
Chamber - we can encourage more people to take an interest in local politics.”
Matt Bond, Communications Specialist Cornwall Council
Webcasting
Connect Social
Gives councillors identity on webcasting
Shows their democratic record – allowing you to trace their activity
Audience is completely open
Can integrate other social media activity
Designed to provide a single place to connect to your content
People struggle more with the social skills than the technical
ones
It’s not just help with the technical skills –
It’s about understanding culture and behaviour online
How do I deal with conflict?
How public do I have to be? What can I talk about?
Do I have to have a Facebook page?
What does it mean when some one ‘RT’s me?
What do you already use social media for either personally or professionally?
Do you have any networked councillors?
What is there role in the scrutiny process?
Table questions
Exploring the skills in your council
And how are these tools used in scrutiny?
There is the opportunity for the public to contribute to the agenda
The format follows a topic rather than a formal committee structure
The process can involve many different people from different networks
Openness is at the heart of the scrutiny process
It can work well with other digital democracy projects such as open data
Scrutiny is a great place to start
Ideal for more open democracy?
There are many ways to use social media in scrutiny in a meaningful
way
New approaches to evidence
Embed open government principles
Work more responsively
Extend the reach of the process
Open up the agenda setting
Examples of Networked Councillor qualities in Scrutiny
Open by default Comments from the public are
encouraged during meetings via social media and other channels
Digitally native Minutes of meetings and related papers available online - meetings are
either webcast or live tweeted and widely disseminated online
Co-productive Decisions are shaped with active
citizens who continue to participate actively in the outcome
NetworkedDecisions are communicated via relevant
networks rather than being simply disseminated centrally
What is the role of information in scrutiny?
Open data
How do we define ‘evidence’?
Blogging in Scrutiny
Emma is using her blog to explain the budget process in non-council language
Twitter updates around scrutiny
Both officers and members are using twitter to highlight what is happening in scrutiny
Webcasting in action in a highly sensitive scrutiny case
http://www.coventry.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/114228
Webcasting a difficult issue makes it clear you are being open
Using an online community forum to engage people in Party Houses Scrutiny
Going to people’s own spaces can involve a much more diverse group of people
http://bhccresidentcommunity.ning.com/BHscrutiny/partyhouses
Tough Choices Devon
http://www.toughchoices.co.uk/
Text here??
CityCamp
http://citycampbtn.org/
Text here??
NHS Citizen
Total hits over both days: 2234 (1650 live, 584 archive)
Margaret Hodge
Text here??
Good Scrutiny award winners
Text here??
Decide on a topic that you want to work on – it could be anything that is topical in your council or even better in the local community
What would a ‘networked scrutiny’ process look like?
What tools would you use?
What bits of the process would you change?
Who would be involved?
What is stopping you??
Table questions
How could you use these ideas in the future
Social media and the digital realm can be challenging.
It is the poorer for the absence of our democratic processes
Catherine [email protected]
Thank you for your time