WRITTEN ON November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

David Osimo and Paul Johnston brought the voice of the public into the last day of the official Malmo eGov2009 proceedings. Here’s their video of different people reading their crowd-sourced open declaration:

Must have been a good coup de theatre – Ton says it raised a round of applause.

Paul recorded me doing one section (the bit on personal data) and I wondered why I couldnt find myself. Then I realised the point is you can do as many mashups as you want, ie anyone is invited to record themselves reading any or all of it. So I guess there will be any number of versions.

I think this is well thought out, a lot of hard work over many months, and a great deal smarter than the tedious and rambling industry declaration made by the pan-European “voice of business” group Digital Europe (to which I would like if I could find their URL). Hint: there are smarter ways of communicating. Paul works for Cisco, remember?

Well done David! Well done Paul!

PS – now we just need the Black-eyed peas to set it to music, like Yes we can