Ideas for My Council is a 'local government 2.0' concept dreamed up by Guy Dickinson and Simon Wheatley, based in Manchester.

At the concept stage (and entered into some recent government sponsored mashup competitions), Simon and Guy's idea solves the issue of local people having little opportunity to get involved in defining the priorities for their local council (other than at election time).

After building open innovation web apps for companies, enabling customers to suggest ideas for products, they realised the same approach would work brilliantly for local citizens.

Their idea is a web application that enables local people to 'suggest an idea for my council'. Others in the area engage by adding comments and rating the ideas.

When an idea reaches a certain critical mass, the site emails the details of the idea to the relevant department and to councillors from wards where people are voting.

Councils will have access to give responses and updates to the ideas in the site, building a highly relevant, participatory forum for ongoing citizen <-> council engagement.

Their plan is to build this web application to help local people connect with every council in the UK.