iCan is live (in beta-be-gentle-with-it-form). It’s been a tough 14 months, but hopefully it will be of real use to people with real problems or plans for their locality.
It’s a little empty right now, as the punters have yet to populate it, but it’s going to grow and get better. We had the design work for perhaps the next couple of revisions already done before I left, and the ethnographic research we did at the top of the project, coupled with user-testing and research that the new design lead Helen Day is going to be doing should see some rapid iterations up-ahead.
It remains to say well done to all who made it possible. Helen, Julie, Priya, Ki, Andy, Thomas, Dharmesh, Stokes, Nico, James, Anno and Tom particularly. Danny has a nice little appraisal.
Petafloptimism 
Wow, it’s finally up. Really impressive already. I’ve been monitoring iCan’s progress for a while and I’m still wetting myself for it’s eventual full arrival.
So, who was responsible for iCan not accepting accented characters in user names?
😉
Sean.
I’d be interested in any comments on my comments about iCan on my DoWire e-list.
http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/msg00081.html
Where did you leave those designs for the next couple of revisions. We can’t find them.
MV
It didn’t take long for the first email address I listed here to be harvested, so I’m using this as a test to see if spam-harvesters can cope with email addresses split with comments.
The BBC’s new iCAN civic engagement project is in beta
The BBC is beta-testing its long-awaited iCan project aimed at encouraging civic engagement
iCAN
The BBC launched iCAN, the civic participation project that has been evolving beside me for most of this year, whilst I managed the database behind the registration system. It is maybe hard to get it right now, as it is a bit