Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the category archives:
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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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 a lot of [...]
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Last week, Federal Computer Week published an op-ed they had invited me to write on the issue of crowdsourcing, public participation and how the former might be applied in the context of the latter: The outer limits to the crowd’s wisdom
If you are a frequent reader of this blog, you know that this is something I’ve [...]
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This post is not a deep dive into the definition of crowdsourcing but rather a quick mental note for myself.
Jeff Howe, who coined the term crowdsourcing back in 2006, offers this “white paper version” of a definition in the sidebar of his blog:
Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent [...]
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Richard Fahey has a detailed post up about an interesting crowdsourcing idea that has been proposed by the Conservative Party in the UK: £1m prize for citizen participation platform
Earlier this week the UK Conservative party promised to offer a £1m cash prize to a person or team that creates an online platform that can be used [...]
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As I noted last week, I see widespread confusion around some of the key terms in the conversation about government 2.0 in general and participation in particular: public participation, crowdsourcing and “the wisdom of the crowds” — unless I am terribly mistaken, the three don’t mean the same thing and hence should not be used [...]
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David Wilcox reports on a talk Clay Shirky gave at the London School of Economics this past week about collective action in a political context and some of the discussions that have since ensued: Clay Shirky: online crowds aren’t always wise
Clay Shirky, leading commentator on internet technologies and author of Here Comes Everybody, last night backed away from [...]
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