Disruptive Proactivity

You might vote tomorrow or next year, but whether you do or not, Parliament will continue doing their thing. The faces may change, but the processes remain. Unless the processes change.

When the mySociety’s Strategic review of Parliament’s Online Services was published, a consultation was opened on the review with a view to informing Parliament’s response to it. A summary of the first round of that process has now emerged.

Concerningly, there have been very few responses from “outside Parliament”. It says 9, but “external” to Parliament is a very wide category, and in practice, from the internet-native democracy-caring constituencies, it’s apparently really only been me. I believe there is a lot more interest than that, but a lot of those opinions, for now, are simply “what mySociety said”. That needs saying.

If you have an interest in a Parliamentary Web site and infrastructure that is relevant and usable for all (both internally and externally), then you may wish to send a short couple of sentances about why it is important to you that the mySociety review is well implemented, which bits of the emerging review response themes are priorities for you.

The point is not for your comments to be particularly deep or substantive, but a couple of (unique) sentances shows that you are interested enough to read 2 pages and send an email that makes sense. People in Parliament are concerned at change, the point is that it has benefits for what Parliament does — serve the citizens.

Send your own thoughts to NewDigitalService@parliament.uk . Bulk identikit emails wont help on this one.