The news arrived yesterday that Derby has decided to name one section of the inner ring road after a local figure.
Having already renamed the A52 dual-carrigeway between the city and Nottingham Sir Brian Clough Way who would be next?
An online poll run by Derby City Council shortlisted three Derby-connected people and opened the vote to [...]

This UKGovCamp 10 Session by Al Smith was focused mainly on how council’s responded to January’s Big Freeze in terms of online communication.
Al had some interesting experience and innovations to share around communicating quickly information on school closures, road gritting and any affected services.
The group talked about how in a rapidly occurring situation online communication [...]

Or ‘The future of journalism: How do government press offices evolve alongside journalism?’
This session was led by Eve Shuttleworth from the Ministry of Justice and was a great example of how an unconference can work; someone tweets a comment from an early session, leads to back channel chat, session suggested and duly added to the [...]