The National Assembly for Wales has launched a mobile app, giving people another way of finding out what is happening at the Assembly.
The app, which will be launched on Saturday March 28 at the TEDX reception held in the Senedd, aims to present key information in a clear, straightforward way.
The aim is to make information on Assembly work easily accessible to people on their mobile devices, in Welsh and English. The app will be updated and improved based on user feedback.
“We live in the digital age where more and more people access their information, and their news, through digital platforms,” said the Assembly’s Presiding Officer, Dame Rosemary Butler AM.
“I want everyone in Wales to be engaged with the work of the National Assembly, and the laws we make must reflect the hopes and aspirations of communities across Wales.
“That means that we have to communicate through the channels and devices that many of us now use on a daily basis and I hope our new app will mean more people engage with us.”
Peter Black AM, the National Assembly Commissioner with responsibility for the ICT, broadcasting and e-democracy said:
“With more of our users than ever before viewing our content on mobile devices, including nearly 60 per cent of videos watched on our YouTube channel, the creation of this new app is a natural progression in our online engagement activity.
“We are committed to improving how content is linked and presented through our online platforms, and we hope the app will make it easier for people to find out about the National Assembly, using whatever platforms they want to.”
I hope the assembly have included a Thesaurus and a
dictionary so that I can understand the incomprehensible abbreviated
language they use to each other, in public. DTI this, APQ that, and UFM the other.
I defy any member of the general public, to listen to an assembly
committee session, and know what on earth they are talking about, I
often wonder if they know themselves.
But, there is light on the horizon, in the shape of the new proposed intake of AM`s, (proposed by their salaries review board) better educated AM`s,
probably able to understand Latin, altogether better educated, and all
attracted by the £80,000 salary, a wide range of expenses and a
subsidised Assembly on site off licence?. and, perhaps even a car from
the ever growing Assembly Car Pool Garage.
The Assembly should run internal training courses of how to communicate with the common man.
It is very common for people who place themselves apart from, and above, the ‘common herd’ to bandy around terms which they know are meaningless to the majority of the population. Like you I wonder if AMs have the faintest idea of what they are talking about themselves.
The ridiculously large pay rise will, of course, not result in enhanced AMs who are able to communicate in a lucid way. All that will happen is that we get richer AMs with an even greater estimation of their own importance.
I hope the assembly have included a Thesaurus and a
dictionary so that I can understand the incomprehensible abbreviated
language they use to each other, in public. DTI this, APQ that, and UFM the other.
I defy any member of the general public, to listen to an assembly
committee session, and know what on earth they are talking about, I
often wonder if they know themselves.
But, there is light on the horizon, in the shape of the new proposed intake of AM`s, (proposed by their salaries review board) better educated AM`s,
probably able to understand Latin, altogether better educated, and all
attracted by the £80,000 salary, a wide range of expenses and a
subsidised Assembly on site off licence?. and, perhaps even a car from
the ever growing Assembly Car Pool Garage.
The Assembly should run internal training courses of how to communicate with the common man.
It is very common for people who place themselves apart from, and above, the ‘common herd’ to bandy around terms which they know are meaningless to the majority of the population. Like you I wonder if AMs have the faintest idea of what they are talking about themselves.
The ridiculously large pay rise will, of course, not result in enhanced AMs who are able to communicate in a lucid way. All that will happen is that we get richer AMs with an even greater estimation of their own importance.