Five Participation-Related Topic Proposals at SXSW ‘11

by Tim on August 27, 2010

Like last year, the vast majority of session proposals for SXSW ‘11 in the Open Government category seem to focus on transparency and open data. Here are five sessions that look interesting from a participation perspective (including ours, of course):

Voting has just been extended through the weekend. You know what to do!

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Conversations Elsewhere

by Tim on August 27, 2010

Three interesting threads to highlight this week:

Enjoy your weekends, everyone!

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How to Do a Citizens’ Assembly

August 27, 2010

Over the past few weeks, Melbourne, Australia-based Ron Lubensky has written an series of posts explaining the concept of a Citizens’ Assembly and defending it against unfounded criticism:

July 23, 2010: Open letter to Julia Gillard, Prime Minister
July 26, 2010: Assembled citizens make sense
July 26, 2010: Another good op-ed supporting Citizens’ Assembly about climate policy
July 26, [...]

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Second Life and Empathy

August 24, 2010

Reading up on the Knight Foundation’s Technology for Engagement Inititative as they’ve just announced their first round of five projects to receive funding, I came across Boston, MA-based Engagement Game Lab. From their mission statement:
The Engagement Game Lab at Emerson College is devoted to forging a place for games in urban civic life.  The faculty, [...]

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Public Participation: Ten Simple Ideas for Better Online/Offline Integration

August 24, 2010

In preparation for the upcoming series of NCDD 2010 Regional Events (including the one right here in the Bay Area, October 29), Sandy Heierbacher (Director, NCDD) has asked for input on a question I know has been on the minds of many in the NCDD community for the past few years: “How can we best meld/combine [...]

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Certified

August 23, 2010

I had the distinct pleasure to attend all five days of IAP2’s Certificate Training Course in Public Participation last month (check their training calendar for upcoming training opportunities in your area). As I mentioned at the time, it was time well spent!
As per the training materials, here’s what the three training units encompass:
Planning for Effective [...]

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CityCampSF: October 16/17, 2010 in San Francisco, CA

August 19, 2010

A couple of months ago, I started an innocent thread on Govloop: OpenGov unconference in the SF Bay Area?

Speaking of barcamps, we should really do an unconference about this stuff in the San Francisco Bay Area.  I know at least a couple dozen people who have expressed interest (a number of whom were at OpenGovWest in [...]

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Conversations Elsewhere

August 13, 2010

Just a few threads to point to this week, a couple of which prompted me to highlight IAP2’s core values and code of ethics:

Andrea di Maio covers a report by The Guardian on Programme for Government, I point out that this was not crowdsourcing and reiterate the list of possible reasons why this effort failed (in [...]

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E-Participation in Context (Part 3): Bureaucratic Change

August 12, 2010

This is the third part of a series of discussion starters on contextual aspects of e-participation (part 1 dealt with Institutional Backing, part 2 with Advocacy and Leadership). Contributed by our student intern, they are inspired by his master thesis on e-participation.
Establishing mechanisms for collaborative governance, such as e-participation processes (or public participation processes in [...]

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Intellitics SXSW 2011 Session Proposal: “Open Government through Participation: Designing Successful Online Consultations”

August 11, 2010

As is the tradition with South by South West, they do a great job of allowing the community to help design the conference program. Their famous Panel Picker application went live this morning, and this is the session proposal we submitted:
Open Government through Participation: Designing Successful Online Consultations
Public participation—the process of engaging citizens and stakeholders in collaborative [...]

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