Five star approach to public meetings
The traditional public meeting involved people meeting in public – but that was before the digital revolution.
Live streaming and other newish technologies allow you to include the people who didn’t turn up, as well as those who did. Award-winning social media sort Nick Booth writes on NHS Networks about how to start using digital tools to widen the debate. His five stars of open local democracy offer some straightforward core principles for anyone interested in making local democracy more democratic.