Recap
Labour has begun a new experiment in communicating with the public. A new way of developing policy, using online technology, involving citizens and committing to more open and transparent way of running government.
Called OpenLabourNZ, this is the first time a major New Zealand political party has opened up our policy development to the public in this way.
An OpenLabourNZ conference held in Wellington last weekend was a uniquely New Zealand event, drawing on similar processes used in Australia, the US and the UK.
- Thanks for participating in the event on Saturday
- You can now view the footage from Saturday’s event. It’s in chunks so you see what each participant said. There are some great contributions
- You can read Phil Goff’s speech here
- There’s been some good media coverage of OpenLabourNZ so far including a thoughtful piece from Colin James and this piece in ComputerWorld
- If you have any notes generated during the day, please email them to open@labour.org.nz
- Given the volume of content generated, my office is now compiling all of the input into a draft document, to be published on the OpenLabourNZ wiki on Thursday 16th September. There is already a lot of content on the wiki so go and have a look.
- You can still edit the wiki before 16 September and we’ll take that content into account, but it might be easier just to email any ideas/comments to open@labour.org.nz
- Anyone interested will then have two weeks to edit the wiki to help improve and add to the final document. This will then be submitted to the Labour Party at the end of September.
- The Labour Party conference in October will hold a workshop on open and transparent government and consider the report
- The Labour Party Council will work with all MPs to develop Manifesto commitments on Open Government policy
- The twitter hashtag #olnz is still active so make use of that as well
- If you want to follow me on twitter I am @clarecurranmp
- If you don’t know much about OpenLabourNZ and want some more background, go here
If you have any suggestions, questions or issues, please email me clare.curran@parliament.govt.nz
Well done. Thanks and good on you, Clare, and your colleagues for running this. It is a valuable pioneering initiative.
I’ll drink to that
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Pity about the logo. It looks like the sort of sign one might see outside a hippy alternative homeopathic-based midwifery clinic. Dandelion tea, anyone?
Yes, its easy to be facaetious; yes, its important Labour attempt new and diverse means to reconnect with the electorate; yes, brainstorming policy involves listing all possible ideas – but, really, how is all this faffing about going to remove National Ltd™ from government? How is “collaborating” with them going to temper the effects of its neo-liberal feed-the-rich policies?
The more I see of this nonsense, the more I feel like the 2011 election is going to be like deciding between Coke or Pepsi.
“Pity about the logo. It looks like the sort of sign one might see outside a hippy alternative homeopathic-based midwifery clinic. Dandelion tea, anyone?” LOL
Agreed 
“The more I see of this nonsense, the more I feel like the 2011 election is going to be like deciding between Coke or Pepsi.” Which dude is the Pepsi?
I’ve figured it out!
Goff is the Coke and Key is the Pepsi because Coke is a lot older 
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I like the logo. I love the idea of open labour. I think it is great.
The logo is delicate and beautiful like you A Mother