Pietro Speroni: “Crowdsourcing the History of eDemocracy”

by Tim on May 12, 2013

in Research

Via the Metagovernment mailing list:, From Italy-based researcher Pietro Speroni di Fenizio (check out his blog or follow him on Twitter): Hello everybody, I have been invited to give a talk on the history of eDemocracy for state of the Net. I am also writing a book on eDemocracy, and the history will surely be a chapter into it, [...]

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What Is Digital Engagement?

by Tim May 5, 2013 Dictionary

Here’s a working definition I used during today’s presentation at the 2013 Participatory Budgeting Conference: Digital Engagement The use of information and communications technologies to support, enhance or extend public participation and civic engagement processes. Another one comes to us via Steph Gray: Digital Engagement uses digital tools and channels to find, listen to and [...]

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PB Conference: “Digital Engagement Across the PB Lifecycle”

by Tim May 5, 2013 Events

Here are my slides from our technology panel earlier today (see program): Session C: Tech Tools for PB (DH 231) This session will focus on the key issues and questions that people should consider when developing and using tech tools for PB. The panel will share their expertise on online civic engagement tools. Facilitator: Alissa [...]

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Top Posts April 2013

by Tim May 1, 2013 About

Our most popular recent posts for April: Hello Europe: A Fresh Idea to Connect Europe Zilino Road Show Continues: Chicago and D.C. Group Patterns: How Do They Apply to Virtual Environments? And our overall top goal-getters: What Is Public Participation? What Is Government 2.0? What Is Public Participation? Thanks for reading along!

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Uproar Chicago: Audio Collage Now Available

by Tim April 24, 2013 Radar

Here’s the follow-up to February’s post about the Uproar Chicago project. They just released their audio collage of the voice mails they’ve received: More audio clips area available on Soundcloud. One of the ideas we’re currently exploring as part of the Real Dialogues project (winner of the NCDD Catalyst Award) is the potential for using [...]

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The GovLab Experiment: Making Engagement Work

by Tim April 18, 2013 Radar

Happening today and tomorrow in New York City, NY: The GovLab Experiment On April 18-19, 2013, The Governance Lab @ NYU will host The GovLab Experiment: Making Engagement Work, a radically interdisciplinary design laboratory in New York sponsored by the MacArthur and Knight Foundations. From the about page: The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve [...]

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Zilino Road Show Continues: Chicago and D.C.

by Tim April 12, 2013 About

Upate 04/26: We’ve added a stop in Columbus, OH. As we continue our Zilino Road Show, here are a few more dates to check out: April 25, 2013: Zilino Road Show Berkeley, CA April 30, 2013: Zilino Road Show Minneapolis, MN May 1, 2013: Zilino Road Show Madison, WI May 2, 2013: Zilino Road Show [...]

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Civic Data Challenge 2013

by Tim April 11, 2013 Uncategorized

The Civic Data Challenge 2013, set to launch at 2pm Pacific Time today, is a contest presented by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. From the website (emphasis mine): THE CHALLENGE: The Civic Data Challenge turns the raw data of ‘civic health’ into useful applications and [...]

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Media’s New Role as Convener of Citizen Deliberation

by Tim April 5, 2013 Journalism and Media

As I lamented on Twitter yesterday, I wish I were in Denver, CO this weekend for the National Conference for Media Reform. First, talk about a diverse, interesting-looking line-up of speakers. But mainly, I’m interested in the question which future role, if any, journalism and media might play as a convener of citizen dialogue. Daniel [...]

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Intellitics on Pinterest

by Tim April 4, 2013 About

So we recently did the inevitable and joined Pinterest. What is Pinterest? It’s a site that let’s you collect and share pretty pictures. Some have even suggested it might be a valuable tool for online community engagement. Here’s one of the first boards we created. Group process diagrams, yummy! If you already hang out there, [...]

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Top Posts March 2013

by Tim April 3, 2013 About

These three were our most popular recent posts in March: Hello Europe: A Fresh Idea to Connect Europe 2013 Event and Conference Radar What Is Participatory Budgeting? The overall top scorers remain in the lead unchallenged: What Is Public Participation? What Is Public Participation? What Is Government 2.0? As always, thanks for your attention!

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Discourse Team Releases Guidelines for Civilized Discourse Online

by Tim April 1, 2013 Radar

The team over at Discourse, a software project aimed at re-inventing the online forum (see here), recently did an analysis of community guidelines for about 50 different online forums, bulletin board systems and groups that have been around for at least a decade. From the blog post: The Universal Rules of Civilized Discourse With Discourse, it [...]

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Group Patterns: How Do They Apply to Virtual Environments?

by Tim March 30, 2013 Research

I’ve mentioned the Group Works project before, a multi-year effort to explore and document the “deeper core of what brings a group conversation alive”. While I wasn’t able to attend the Seattle workshop last October, I recently had a chance to attend an in-person session here in Berkeley, CA — a very fun and insightful afternoon. [...]

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Hello Europe: A Fresh Idea to Connect Europe

by Tim March 22, 2013 Europe

Since it’s Friday, I wanted to share this fun idea I found floating by in my social media stream earlier this week. Hello Europe is a project idea by three Belgians, Senne Dehandschutter, Majd Khalifeh and Mathias Brouns. Their goal is to create a network of large-scale interactive video screens to connect people across Europe. [...]

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