Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the monthly archives:
The other day, I mentioned on Twitter how I sometimes wish there were a glossary of the key terms and definitions that guide our conversations around participation.
With the Open Government Directive expected to be released within a few weeks, one challenge remains that people don’t necessarily mean the same thing when they discuss participation and participatory [...]
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A few weeks into this fun side project, we just added “projects” to ParticipateDB. As I mentioned at launch, the idea is to show where the various tools are being used in practice and how (there are only a handful of fairly unrefined entries available yet but you get the idea).
The project entries don’t aspire to [...]
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I finally got my invite to Google Wave a few days ago. It’s definitely one of the more interesting things I’ve seen in a while.
Over the past few months, I’ve talked to a number of people who had expressed interest in trying out Google Wave for the purpose of e-participation.
To provide a space where some [...]
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I usually refrain from embedding other people’s hard work unless I have at least some additional value to add. In this case, however, I’m simply glad to see my German hometown embrace public participation:
Participatory Budgeting Cologne
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About Zebralog:
Zebralog is a not-for-profit organization that supports modern democratic decision making through the use of [...]
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