Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the category archives:
Three interesting threads to highlight this week:
For the second time, NCDD ran a “featured member” post and attracted a few good questions and answers: Today’s Featured NCDD Member: Healthy Democracy Oregon
Over on the NCDD Forum, Matt Leighninger asks (great discussion, to be continued): Better to convene, or to aggregate? (and how?)
My own post on online/offline [...]
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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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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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It seems the topic of ethics and integrity in public participation is coming up more often these days (see my comments here, here).
Just for the record, these are the rules by which we at Intellitics abide.
First, we have IAP2’s Core Values for the Practice of Public Participation:
Public participation is based on the belief that those who [...]
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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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As an experiment, I’m adding a weekly segment to this blog that shows our conversations elsewhere (a simple list of posts where we have commented).
Over on the PEP-NET blog, Simone Gerdesmeier of Berlin, Germany-based Zebralog provides a comparison between AmericaSpeaks’ “Our Budget, Our Economy” project that happened this past weekend and Zebralog’s upcoming Citizen Dialogue [...]
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It took us a while, but we’re finally in the process of launching the first alpha release of Zilino, our new web application for online consultations. Zilino allows organizations (private, non-profit, government etc.) to engage their people (members, citizens, residents, other constituents etc.) in problem solving and decision making.
The prototype went live earlier in April and [...]
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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 [...]
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Probably the most memorable presentation at the 2007 Community Next conference in Stanford was “The Patent-Pending skinnyCorp Method for Creating Online Awesomeness and Other Cool Stuff” by Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Jake Nickell of skinnyCorp, makers of Threadless and other entertaining projects large and small.
As Kalmikoff pointed out in one of the stories they shared (starts [...]
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Back in February, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD), along with a number of other established associations and organization in the field of dialogue, conflict resolution and public participation, launched a collaborative effort to craft a set of principles for public engagement that would inform the Open Government Directive currently being worked on by [...]
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Conversations Elsewhere
