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		<title>Online consultation on science and society</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to tweets from Dave Briggs and a blog post from Simon over at Puffbox I&#039;ve just been exploring Steph Gray&#039;s quite fantastic innovations over the Science and Society consultation website. Not only does the site work hard to make a complex consultation more accessible through the use of video introductions and a blog format [...]]]></description>
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<p>Not only does the site work hard to make a complex consultation more accessible through the use of video introductions and a blog format &#8211; but it sets the consultation free, and let&#039;s any visitor select questions from the Consultation to make available on their own websites <a href="http://interactive.dius.gov.uk/scienceandsociety/site/share/">via a custom widget</a> &#8211; which feeds information right back into the core consultation.<br />
So &#8211; bloggers, schools, youth services &#8211; anyone with a web presence where they can add in a little widget code can help their users and audience engage with the Science and Society consultation in a manageable way. </p>
<p>For example, the widget below (you may not see this if viewing in an RSS reader &#8211; so click through to the main post to take a look) displays a couple of questions I thought readers of this blog might be interested in answering. </p>
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<h2 style=&#039;color:white;padding:0;margin:5px 0 0 0;font-weight:lighter;&#039;>Science and Society: your views</h2>
<p>Please visit the <a href="http://interactive.dius.gov.uk/scienceandsociety/" style=&#039;color:white;&#039;>Science and Society</a> consultation site to join the debate.</p>
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This approach of enabling citizens to easily take, remix and re-publish government consultations to their networks is worth exploring in many more contexts &#8211; not least in promoting positive activities, enabling young people to take, remix and share information about positive activities in their areas with their networks. </p>
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