Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
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This is the third part of a series of discussion starters on contextual aspects of e-participation (part 1 dealt with Institutional Backing, part 2 with Advocacy and Leadership). Contributed by our student intern, they are inspired by his master thesis on e-participation.
Establishing mechanisms for collaborative governance, such as e-participation processes (or public participation processes in [...]
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Following up on my earlier post, I was trying to find out how exactly the Programme for Government online consultation had been announced when it launched. When evaluating consultations, a lot depends on the commitment the sponsoring organization has made, their promise to the public.
I couldn’t find anything on the website (on a side note, it’s not [...]
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Shortly after the newly-elected coalition government in the UK took office this past May, they launched a website that invited the public to comment on their Programme for Government (their policy agenda for the next few years). The site went live on May 20, 2010 and stayed open for feedback for about three weeks, during [...]
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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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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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The International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) just put out a request for proposals to update their certificate program course materials and train-the-trainer program development.
The first of the two RFPs (Updating Course Materials, PDF) notes that the current training materials “are lacking in the area of social media techniques.”
Which brings up a few interesting questions:
What [...]
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This post is part of a series of discussion starters on contextual aspects of e-participation. Contributed by our student intern, they are inspired by his master thesis research.
In deciding if and what kind of e-participation processes to initiate, it is important to consider not only the capacity available on the side of the host or [...]
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I was just playing around with Freenode IRC (trying to set up a permanent #edem channel), when I came across their channel guidelines. We’re still drafting our community ground rules for Zilino, and I found these very applicable:
Channel Guidelines
IRC is a low-bandwidth method of communication, in comparison with physical presence. Many of the cues of [...]
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