The Weymouth Wire is a new system to encourage participation in local decision-making. The idea is to use occasional (very quick) online surveys to ask people for their views on a range of local issues. As a some people don’t use the internet it also gives online folk the opportunity to register their own friends, family and neighbours and catch their views by having a conversation with them in an offline manner. These surveys plug into some smart technology that can instantaneously turn them into charts, spreadsheets and so on and thus be shared back with the community very quickly after the survey closes, demonstrating what the community thinks on specific issues. These can then be fed into the democratic process. If you join over the next week you will be one of the first to learn about and give your opinion on a ground-breaking community plan for Weymouth and Portland.
For more details and to sign up visit www.weyforward.net/agentofchange.php
Additionally, there is an ideas league to place good ideas to improve the Borough of Weymouth and Portland. To add your own ideas (and contribute to the online surveys) visit www.weyforward.net/yourideas.php
Baron Miles
