Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the monthly archives:
From the website:
30 June – 2 July, 2010
Leeds University Business School, UK
The widespread diffusion of the Internet and a growing trend towards democratisation worldwide have encouraged new modes, projects and visions of citizen participation in decision making and governance.
OD2010 aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from a wide range of academic and applied [...]
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As promised, I’ve been tracking the numbers from the ongoing Open Government discussions on a daily basis (follow the thread on GovLoop for details). We’re now almost three weeks into this initiative. Here’s a chart that shows how the numbers have developed since February 9 (a few days after launch):
Ideas: 993
Comments: 2,314
Votes: 13,747
Users: 3,898
Growth is [...]
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Via the Public Decisions blog (co-organizer of the Including the Excluded online conference we’ll be attending), I just found out about a new research effort by Involve, a UK-based not-for-profit offering public participation consulting and services: Quantifying the Value of Engagement: A call for case studies
Dear Colleague,
Involve are embarking on an ambitious project with Consumer Focus [...]
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For some time, I’ve been suggesting the creation of a national public participation calendar and project directory as a key component of the Open Government Directive:
May 2009: Open Government Dialogue: “Create an Open Government Project Directory and Knowledge Base”
January 2010: Open Government Needs Public Participation Calendars
Based on this post on NextGov, it looks like the U.S. Environmental [...]
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Following some peer recommendations (here, here), I just signed up for Including the Excluded – The 2010 Stakeholder Engagement Online Conference, March 2-4, 2010:
About This Conference
Conference Theme: Equity, Accessibility and Social Inclusion
Effectively engaging diverse people or groups can be challenging; what works well for the majority may not work as well for some individuals or groups. [...]
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A few days ago, a new site was launched that helps track activity across the 23 federal agencies that are using IdeaScale for their consultations on Open Government: OpenGov Tracker
This webpage makes use of the IdeaScale API to aggregate data for all agencies which are making use of that platform. USDA and Health and Human [...]
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A number of people commented on last month’s post about the Los Angeles Budget Challenge (both online and offline), and most seemed to share my concerns regarding the survey design.
Shortly after publishing the post, I reached out to the City of Los Angeles via the email address given on the site. I figured many readers might be [...]
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Following up on my list of ten things to monitor, I’ve started a thread on GovLoop: Monitoring and continuous evaluation of OpenGov forums
Here’s my initial post:
As part of my ongoing efforts to monitor the various feedback channels that have been launched as part of the Open Government Directive, I’ll be tracking some basic metrics. I [...]
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The report from last year’s No Better Time conference is now available: No Better Time: A 2010 Report on Opportunities and Challenges for Deliberative Democracy (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Executive summary
In July 2009, more than 250 campus and community leaders came together at the University of New Hampshire to talk about the “deliberative democracy” field, the tide [...]
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Now that a whole lot of agency.gov/open websites are live and many agencies have indeed set up a ”mechanism for the public to [...] [p]rovide input on the agency’s Open Government Plan” it’s time to figure out what to watch out for over the coming weeks and months in order to evaluate the success of these initiatives.
As I noted [...]
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