Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the category archives:
Like last year, the vast majority of session proposals for SXSW ‘11 in the Open Government category seem to focus on transparency and open data. Here are five sessions that look interesting from a participation perspective (including ours, of course):
Social Powered Community Planning – How Now
Open Government through Participation: Designing Successful Online Consultations
Rebooting Iceland: Crowdsourcing [...]
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As is the tradition with South by South West, they do a great job of allowing the community to help design the conference program. Their famous Panel Picker application went live this morning, and this is the session proposal we submitted:
Open Government through Participation: Designing Successful Online Consultations
Public participation—the process of engaging citizens and stakeholders in collaborative [...]
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Last week, San Francisco saw the 2010 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, a five-day international event that included the two-day U.S. Conference on Initiative and Referendum.
Due to scheduling conflicts, I was only able to attend on two days and not for very long but made a few good connections nonetheless.
The San Francisco Declaration on [...]
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Via the NCDD mailing list, I was just alerted to this upcoming conference. Looks interesting!
Reinventing Governance Conference
A conference to promote new forms of collaboration among community, business, and governmental leaders through engaged dialogue and case-study analysis.
University of Colorado and the Millennium Harvest House
Boulder, Colorado
October 8-10, 2010
Reinventing Governance will challenge people to learn from others, to share their [...]
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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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I’m in Tucson, AZ this week attending the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution’s sixth national ECR Conference: ECR2010: Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution – Evolving to Meet New Opportunities.
I had been eyeing this opportunity ever since I first heard about the conference back in October of last year. A number of people highly recommended it, and their [...]
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Towards the end of last week’s Open Gov West conference/unconference in Seattle, WA a series of follow-up meetings on the West Coast was announced, the first of which is scheduled to happen in San Francisco, CA the week after next:
San Francisco OGW Meetup: April 12th 6-8 PM
We’re continuing the conversations from the Open Gov West [...]
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As we’re gearing up for our trip to Seattle, WA to attend Open Gov West this Friday and Saturday, I saw Travis Kriplean on Twitter ask whether sessions will be recorded.
Here’s my plea:
I encourage every attendee to bring their audio, photo and video gear and help record as many sessions as possible. I find that [...]
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