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Getting the basics right withCitizen Space

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Citizen Space in a nutshell

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A consultation platform built forgovernment by government.Designed as a collaborative projectbetween Delib and the UK governmentbetween 2009/10.Open source - meaning the code is freely

available to be developed + innovated on.

Built on time and on budget. Unusual in government!

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Platform and apps model

Citizen Space was built around a 3 tier model, with theconsultation hub acting as the central platform.

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Citizen Space in numbers

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Involved 20+ government agencies and80+ stakeholders in development process.Cost 4 00,000+ to build. 140,000 from

the UK government. 300,000 from Delib.Took 1 4 months to develop, and 15 00 man hours .

Used by 3 0+ government departments todate.

A serious piece of consultation kit. Very robust.

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Who uses Citizen Space

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30+ Local and central government, to NGOs (like BBC).

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Problems we set out to solve

Efficiencies - create a central consultationplatform designed to address *core*government consultation needs.Cross-departmental collaboration - to makeit easy for multiple partners to set -upconsultations together.Address legal challenges - create standardfunctionality to *minimise* legal challenges.Future-proof platform - provide an open -source platform that can be built on in thefuture.

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So, what does Citizen Space do?

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1 : Organise consultations

All consultationinformation in

one place

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2. Breakdown complex policydocuments

S tructure your consultationwith as many sections

as you like.

For lengthy documents, divideinto Chapters, and let peopleconsult on specific sections

Indication of whether youve

responded to a Chapter or not

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3 . F ilter + analyse responses

Filter response and createCross-tabs of results, to dig

In-depth into results.

Export data for reporting and Further analysis.

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Wow , sounds these all soundawesome , how can I get some???

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Q uick + easy implementation

Q uick and easy to implement, takingroughly 7 days to implement (includingQ uality Assurance testing)

Costs 6 , 5 00 to set up. Additional costsinclude: 1) Servers 2) Service LevelAgreement (SL A) to support you.

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Building on the core (the exciting bit)

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www .D elib . co . ukwww . CitizenSpace . com

Chris@ Delib . co . uk@DelibThinks