Community Organising, Decision Making, Participatory Budgeting and Crowd Sourcing. Turning Ideas into Action
Youth Conference for Climate Change
January 11th, 2020, Cardiff.
It is hard to live in the world and not be aware of Global Warming and Climate Chaos. We are all familiar with the doom and gloom scenarios about the future of
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Glynncollen primary school ended the academic year with a flourish! Having prioritised ‘reducing plastics’ in the school they orchestrated their campaign to change the way free milk is provided to the Foundation Phase in their school. Their simple plan was
The Community celebrated poet Vernon Watkins loved to call home has honoured the 50th anniversary of his death with the planting of a commemorative tree.
And on Thursday his wife, Gwen Watkins, was guest of honour at the official tree planting
This episode of TZM global is hosted by UK chapter member James Phillips and features an interview with VocalEyes and LocalEyes creator and fellow guest speaker at ZDAY London 2016, Peter Anderson. James and Peter discuss how digitally democratic platforms such as VocalEyes
This case study shows the first University to use a digital platform ‘VocalEyes Digital Democracy’ for student engagement and the use of the system for a national conversation to inform government policy.
Pembrokeshire College, the first case study college and our prime early-adopter, now with over 50,000 interactions, is developing its use of VocalEyes ensuring that new students are kept up to date with decisions already made as well as generating new
VocalEyes Digital Democracy took center stage at the National Union of Students Wales Zone conference recently thanks to the presence of Pembrokeshire College’s two student governors and union representatives – Georgia and Osian along with the college’s Learner Voice practitioner
VocalEyes was the platform presented at the inaugural Code Mole event held in the Swansea TechHub recently – and it was also utilised for capturing feedback to show that VocalEyes can be effective in a live event or conference to
Renew Wales – an organisation funded by the Welsh Government that provides 200 local community groups across Wales to develop sustainable policies that address climate change – is also utilising VocalEyes to communicate with its team of 25 community coordinators
VocalEyes has undertaken its first pilot in a secondary school with the successful onboarding of Milford Haven School, in Pembrokeshire. During two ‘Digital Democracy Days’ the pupils were encouraged to add their ideas for improving their experience at school and