March 2010

Open Gov West Revisited

by Sebastian on March 31, 2010

The two-day Open Gov West conference (and un-conference) in Seattle this past weekend, organized by Knowledge as Power, brought together a diverse crowd of open government thinkers and practitioners. A number of private sector innovators, academics and non-profit leaders joined public administrators and officials from the Seattle area as well as those visiting from British [...]

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Let’s Tape Open Gov West!

by Tim on March 24, 2010

As we’re gearing up for our trip to Seattle, WA to attend Open Gov West this Friday and Saturday, I saw Travis Kriplean on Twitter ask whether sessions will be recorded. Here’s my plea: I encourage every attendee to bring their audio, photo and video gear and help record as many sessions as possible. I [...]

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Review: Beginning With the End in Mind

by Sebastian on March 23, 2010

This is a short review of “Beginning with the End in Mind: A Call for Goal-driven Deliberative Practice” by Martín Carcasson, PhD (CAPE Occasional Paper / No 2 / 2009 — PDF) Carcasson‘s essay on deliberative practice presents, in his words, “a conceptual framework to help practitioners more systematically consider both the short-term and long-term [...]

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Big Think Interview with Nicole Lazzaro on Emotion and Fun in Games

by Tim on March 19, 2010

Well worth watching, another video on games and gaming (and fun, and emotion, and motivation etc.): Big Think Interview with Nicole Lazzaro: A conversation with the founder and president of XEODesign Nicole is a leading expert on emotion and fun in games. Her job over the past 20 years has been “to make games more [...]

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Introductions

by Sebastian on March 18, 2010

In August 2009, our team from the Brandt School advised the City of Erfurt on their participatory budgeting project. The city had asked their citizens earlier in a survey which areas they find important, and the administration wanted to use the results of the survey as the basis for an internet-based consultation. The next step [...]

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More on Crowdstorming and Crowdsourcing

by Tim on March 11, 2010

In what is turning out to be a truly fun excercise, This Week in Participation (our new little internet radio show) has meanwhile cranked out a couple more episodes: TWiP 2: Crowdstorming TWiP 3: Crowdsourcing in Urban Planning Both sessions came in at under 20 minutes each and together make for a nice follow-up to [...]

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Open Gov West: March 26-27 in Seattle, WA

by Tim on March 9, 2010

Looks like I finally get to attend one of the many events on Gov 2.0 and Open Government: Open Gov West The greater Northwest and Cascadia region is buzzing with innovative technology and civic engagement organizations, and a number of governments throughout the area have already launched open government directives. Hosted by the City of [...]

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This Week in Participation

by Tim on March 2, 2010

And now for something fun: talking about participation — more often, with more people, and in ways that allow more people to tune in. That’s the idea behind This Week in Participation (TWiP), a new program we just launched. Here’s what it’s about: This Week in Participation (TWiP) is kind of like an internet radio [...]

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