Online Consultations
Online consultations or e-consultations refer to an exchange between government and citizens using the Internet. Online consultation consists in using the Internet to ask a group of people their opinion on one or more specific topics, allowing for trade-offs between participants.
The Data Assembly hosted discussions with three ‘mini-publics’, each representing different stakeholder groups (data holders and policy makers; rights groups and advocacy organisations; and citizens). The first two groups met via online meeting, to discuss a range of data re-use scenarios. The citizen group were engaged through an asynchronous online platform that invited response to key questions, and encouraged engagement with responses from other citizens.
The organisers synthesised findings into a Responsible Data Re-use Framework, designed to inform both the work of policymakers and data holders, and to inform the development of data literacy programmes with partners from New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library. This was presented at an ‘online Townhall’ meeting.
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The Office for National Statistics has run a series of consultations to shape the design of Census data collection, and to determine priorities for the publication of census data and extracts.
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