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The Spending Challenge:quick case study

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Chancellor sets public challenge

In the first month in power, the UK’s new Chancellor, George Osborne, sets a challenge to the public to give ideas of how the government can save money - to help address the government’s deficit.

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Objectives for the Spending Challenge

• Use the collective intelligence of the people to solve national problems “help save money”

• Mass / nationwide participation• Promoting a new form of more

participative governanceThe core objective of the Spending Challenge was to use the intelligence and experience of the public to help solve a national problem - the idea being that citizens could suggest ideas from their everyday lives that could help the government save money.

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How this worked in practice

The Spending Challenge used Delib’s Dialogue App - to enable the Public to easily add ideas, and allow others to read and rate those ideas.

Core challenge andproposition

Public add ideas for how to save money

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What people were saying and doing

Users could rate

. . . comment on

. . . and tag ideas

The ideas given were a mix of *big general ideas* (e.g. Pull out of Afghanistan) and *smaller more actionable ideas*. It was these smaller ideas which were most useful in practice, and which government could put into action.

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Spending Challenge numbers• 250,000 people visited site• 20,000 took part• 43,000 ideas• 14,000 comments• 280,000 ratings

There was a high level of engagement in the process - with over 250,000 visiting the site and over 40,000 ideas given.

Users added on averagex2 ideas each.

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Spending Challenge (in stats)

The high level of engagement is shown by the fact that each user visited over 15 page views and spent over 9 minutes on the site (on average).

Spikes related to launchof the 2 phases

Highengagement

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What happened next

• 6 weeks after the end of the process, the Chancellor announced which initial ideas he was going to take forward. 3 ideas were identified:– a more common sense approach to Criminal

Record Bureau checks for junior doctors.– piloting an online auction site for surplus and

second hand Government equipment– replacing the plastic National Insurance

number card with a letter reducing costs.Having collected over 40,000 ideas, the Chancellor and his team identified x3 ideas to take forward initially.

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