# Forum Guidelines

**URL:** <https://discuss.opengovernment.org.uk/t/forum-guidelines/2999>\
**Category:** UK Open Government Network\
**Created:** [20 November 2024 08:07 UTC](https://discuss.opengovernment.org.uk/t/forum-guidelines/2999 "2024-11-20T08:07:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![simonfj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@simonfj](https://discuss.opengovernment.org.uk/u/simonfj)\
**Post date:** [26 November 2024 00:27 UTC](https://discuss.opengovernment.org.uk/t/forum-guidelines/2999/3 "2024-11-26T00:27:40Z")

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Hi Kevin,

That’s good. I’ll point out that, according to your FAQ’s only Ruchir is a moderator on this forum. You’re down as an admin (only). Just saying.  
OK, So you’re saying

> [@KevinKeith](#):
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> This forum will be reviewed over the coming months to assess its effectiveness in enabling people to engage with open government.

That’s good. [Doing a review every 4 years](https://discuss.opengovernment.org.uk/t/feedback-strategic-discussion-on-the-multistakeholder-forum/1728) is the usual commercial media approach. You’ve pinned this thread, hopefully that means we may be able to use its fixed position as the place where we can start co- designing the next stage of, not just this forum, but inter-relating (open government) projects which are scattered/fragmented around the English-speaking world. PLease! If anyone has anything you think is relevant to my list below, hit _Reply_ and create your own post/list.  
The lists will be either GLOBAL, NATIONAL or LOCAL.

OK, **Global** first.  
The _OGP_ projects incorporates Local and National govs and (often, International) civil groups  
This is t[heir brochureware](https://www.opengovpartnership.org/).  
This is [their primary comms](https://dgroups.org/hivos/ogp/discussions). It offers a comms service for any project/person, globally, to promote an open gov event or project.  
This is [their secondary comms](https://ogplocal.slack.com/). It addresses OGP Local Government members.

**National.**  
(i’m no expert in the UK) but ours is one of [Involve](https://www.involve.org.uk/)’s projects that attempts to offer an umbrella Nationally, just as the OGP project attempts to do Globally. The  
[democracynetwork](https://democracynetwork.org.uk/) is the main UK project I know of that attempts this.  
Its [intentions are inspiring.](https://resources.democracynetwork.org.uk/uk-democracy-map#map-faq)

> designed to better support people to get to know and understand others in the (UK) space and identify opportunities for collaborative discussion.

Its implementation? _Fail._ One irony is that our [opengovernment.gov.uk](http://opengovernment.gov.uk) forum - an Involve funded project - doesn’t appear to collaborate with the umbrella at all. [We can’t solve this situation by advocating to a government](https://opengovernment.org.uk/2024/10/09/rebuilding-trust-requires-a-strategic-response-from-government-kevin-keith/). We might be able to if you (Kevin, ), Chloe, Neisha, James, Max, [Vanessa](https://gds.blog.gov.uk/author/vanessa-burke/) and your peers learn the community management business = how to collaborate. Mind you, we’ll need to have them agree on a _shared_ bunch of tools beforehand.

**Local.**  
After 7 years we have [only one thread left in this forum](https://discuss.opengovernment.org.uk/c/opengovscot/8) that tries to bridge between [a government’s official OGP meetings with its civil groups](https://www.gov.scot/groups/open-government-partnership-steering-group/) and this (supposedly) open civil space/ social network.

Enough. what Ive written is dense, I know. But I’m only writing it once, so if this forum gets deleted, no problem. I’ll leave you with [one other UK approach](https://khub.net/web/guest), as its the longest running forum for people inside/between the UK gov silos. Where the OGP talks about MSF (MultiStakeholderForum) and _“sharing”_, they talk about OPDC (Government Project Delivery Community) and _“delivering”_.

Always useful to compare between an incoming culture and its (dying) predecessor.

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