Two of the three chosen projects actually already exist – http://www.recyclenow.com/ and http://www.cyclestreets.net/ , as pointed out by people just after the competition announced the winners, but there’s nothing on those sites that suggests they actually got any funding, I presume both could do with it!

Others still like the JobCentre one seem to be messing about scrapeing google for postcodes for lack of funds, because of the idiocy of having to pay for the postcode database, which should a national asset if ever there were one.

And the SUABW website seems not to have any kind of follow -up report, again suggesting that they didn’t actually use the money that was allocated!

It looks as if they came up with the idea but didn’t follow it through which is a great shame given what the voluntary sector seem to be doing, seemingly with few funds.

Tom

Thanks for adding the note anyhow.

We are reluctant to use Directgov because we have no loyalty to it, and no incentive.

Our children will not even think about, let alone be able to speall it.

I would like to give stuff once, and by my personal choice of route. I will do the work for you, I promise.

Try VRM, please

directionless.gov

This was built for very little and works much better.

I don’t want to waste time searching. Amazon – I tell them what I want ( a book on science ) and they have clever algorithms to alert me to other stuff

Could we not have tesco, amazon, greenpeace and citizens designing the next site ?

Why can’t I tell deaths@uk.gov with one e-mail and you sort me out.

This could have been done 1 day after the Varney report ????

I would prefer to tell Directgov what to do about me. I have moved house ; my father has moved to India ; I want heating allowance and lots of other things.

But the government does not seem to ask the citizen what they want. They build things, but we do not come. So we are fined or advertised at…..

I do not respond well to this