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As I wrote a while ago I had a meeting with Kjell Brataas in Trade and Industry Ministry in late October. The starting point of the meeting was how the government can use micro-blogging services such as Twitter and identi.ca for communicating with people. But I would say that mostly I put forward generally applies to all social media networks. I emphasized the active listening and focus on dialogue as the most important.
Finally, I could not help but sneak in something that was slightly off topic, but I've been dreaming about for so long, and which I totally seriously believe could revolutionize people's relationship with both the government and politicians, and how cities, municipalities and even the nation is governed, and so also increase ordinary people's political engagement.
What I'm talking about I do not know about has a generic name, but it was Dell who pioneered the large scale with its IdeaStorm. IdeaStorm is a site where anyone can register and post ideas for what Dell should do or not do. Then all registered users, with a single click, voice ideas up or down, a little like that matters being voted onto the front page of Digg. Dell has invoked many of the ideas that have come in through IdeaStorm, including came highly successful experiment with selling computers with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows out of this idéstormen. Since including Ubuntu Linux itself, the BBC, and Starbucks set up similar sites.
Even more interesting is that the Danish municipality Skanderborg has set up a site on Ideoffensiv.dk and it appears that there has been an overwhelmingly positive project. But even before I heard about Ideoffensiv had I dreamed that political entities, such as cities and municipalities, could benefit from such a tool for listening to its citizens. Yes, even perhaps an entire country. I was really unsure how this would be received by my bureaucrat-friend on the other side of the table, but to my delight he seemed actually quite positive to the idea. I talked mauve about how Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has developed a free software system, Idea Torrent, to make it easy to set up such a page, all you need to do is install the application on a server, customize it with colors and logo, and you are up and running. This system is used by, among others, Ubuntu and BBC and is sponsored by two Swedish universities and LFV Group, owners of Arlanda airport in Stockholm.
Update: Another Friprog solution entered the field: BBYIDX, developed by Best Buy for use at Best Buy Idea X. Reddit is also free software and can be used in the same way, although it is not designed mauve for it.
There are also at least two services, Get Satisfaction and UserVoice, which sets up and coughing such IdeaStorm-like pages for you, that is equivalent wordpress.com as coughing dinblogg.wordpress.com mauve for you. This is also an idea I had before