Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the monthly archives:
The following comparison of dialogue and debate seems to have first appeared in the Winter 1993 edition of Focus on Study Circles: The Newsletter of the Study Circles Resource Center (now Everyday Democracy). Thanks to the Wayback Machine’s vast internet archives, a snapshot from 2002 (?) is still available today:
Comparison of Dialogue and Debate
Dialogue is collaborative: two or [...]
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Lathrop & Ruma (eds.): Open Government: Transparency, Collaboration and Participation in Practice. O’Reilly, 2010.
Years from now, people will look back at the Open Government movement and attribute its beginnings to the release of this book. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. The movement has been live and at large since well before this [...]
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Announcing that this was going to be a weekly segment on the blog may have been a bit premature (some weeks are just too busy while others are too slow), but let’s get back to presenting some of the interesting conversations we’re getting into elsewhere around the web, shall we?
Last week, David Eaves (whom I [...]
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We already have one very good definition of public participation in the archives, but for comparison’s sake, here’s the official IAP2 definition as per their training material:
IAP2 views public participation as any process that involves the public in problem solving or decision making and uses public input to make decisions.
Public participation includes all aspects of [...]
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The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) just announced a series of regional one-day events for later this Fall. The Bay Area event is scheduled for Friday, October 29, 2010 at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. From the website:
The events will build on what we learned in the past year and a half [...]
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Doing a bit of research on Spending Challenge the other night, Stephen Whitehead alerted me to his excellent post on the subject: Three lessons from the Treasury’s Spending Challenge fiasco
The article touches upon three important concepts (great analysis, make sure to read it in full):
Asking the right questions
Collaborative brainstorming
Objective-driven public participation
I wanted to highlight the section [...]
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I had heard of the DAD acronym before (decide, announce, defend) but was unaware of SCID until it came up during training last week. Here’s what SCID stands for:
Solicit (ask stakeholders for input)
Consider
Ignore
Decide
Obviously, this is not good practice as it violates a number of public participation principles (mainly, you don’t ask for input if the decision [...]
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After a longer period of downtime, one of the most comprehensive resources in the area of dialogue and deliberation is back in business. From the blog post: NCDD resources are back online (all 2,392 of them!)
The Resource Center describes and categorizes close to 2,400 resources — including many dialogue guides, D&D methods, online tools, case [...]
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Late last week, a new consultation was announced in Europe: Digital Agenda: Commission launches consultation on net neutrality
A consultation on key questions arising from the issue of net neutrality has been launched by the European Commission today. It covers such issues as whether internet providers should be allowed to adopt certain traffic management practices, prioritising one [...]
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This is the second part of a series of discussion starters on contextual aspects of e-participation. Part 1 was on Institutional Backing. Contributed by our student intern, they are inspired by his master thesis research.
Some e-participation projects originate from within (or from outside) public institutions, but are not decided at the top. Initiators of [...]
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