Before the month is out, a quick look back at our June top posts (for the period April through June 2014): CAPS 2014: July 1-2, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium IAP2 USA Survey: Public Participation Core Competencies White House Meeting on Participatory Budgeting Discusses Technology As usual, our three uncontested overall top performing posts: What Is [...]
Wait, it's June already? Time to look back at the three most popular posts in recent posts (from the three-month period March through May 2014): CAPS 2014: July 1-2, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium NCDD 2014 Call for Proposals: “Democracy for the Next Generation” White House Meeting on Participatory Budgeting Discusses Technology And there were our [...]
Yet once again, our monthly look back at the most popular recent posts (from the three-month period February through April 2014): What Is a Civic Startup? World Bank Consultation: “Developing a Strategy for Mainstreaming Citizen Engagement” GovLab: Seeking New Ways to Solve Public Problems Using Technology And our most popular legacy posts: What Is Public [...]
Another busy month! Here are the three most popular recent posts (from the three-month period January through March 2014): OIDP Distinction “Best Practice in Citizen Participation” SecondGov: New Platform for Virtual Policy Making Evaluation Criteria for Assessing Crowdsourcing Efforts in the Legislative Process And our most popular legacy posts, same as last month: What Is [...]
I was interviewed last week by Katie Orr, State Government Reporter at Capitol Public Radio in Sacramento, CA to talk about California Assemblyman Mike Gatto's recent open policymaking experiment (see our coverage here). You can read and listen to the entire segment online: Lawmaker Turns to Crowdsourcing to Create Legislation. Here are the two quotes [...]
Last month saw a nice spike in traffic from people interested in public participation. Welcome! Here are the three most popular posts from recent months (from the three-month period December 2013 through February 2014): Govlab/ICANN Collaboration Explores Open Policy Making OIDP Distinction “Best Practice in Citizen Participation” GovLab: Seeking New Ways to Solve Public Problems [...]
A bit late, but here they are, our most popular posts in January. Most popular recent posts (from the three-month period November 2013 through January 2014): D-CENT: New European Citizen Engagement Platform Under Development Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Conference (PDD2014) AmericaSpeaks Shuts Down Most popular legacy posts: What Is Public Participation? 2014 Event and Conference [...]
Before the new year gets fully under way, we wanted to take a quick look back at some of the blog highlights of 2013 (for previous years, see here: 2010, 2011, 2012). Below is our list of the year's top ten most popular posts, in chronological order: January 1: Help Shape IAP2 North America Conference [...]
Here are December's three most popular recent posts (from the three-month period October through December 2013): Knight Foundation: Public Decision Making Technology Gains Emerging Innovation Status Build Peace Conference: April 5-6, 2014 at MIT Media Lab California Assemblyman Invites Public to Draft Legislation And here are the three most popular legacy posts: What Is Public [...]
About three years ago, I decided to run for the Board of Directors of IAP2 USA. Here's the near-term agenda I proposed then: And here are a few of the things I’d like the new Board to focus on during the first year: Establish IAP2 USA as an agile, member-driven organization From the get-go, create [...]