The Participation Company
It’s that time of year, and SXSW Interactive (that week-long mass pilgrimage of web, film, music and — for the first time this year with a conference track of their own — education innovators to beautiful Austin, TX) is almost around the corner. Since there’s a good chance I’ll make the trip out there yet once again, I [...]
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Tom Atlee will be presenting at this week’s NCDD Confab Call. From his blog: I’ll be doing an online dialogue in the 2-hour National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation Confab Call on Tuesday, January 17th at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific). Ben Roberts, a principal in both weDialogue and Occupy Café, will be facilitating the call [...]
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A quick advertisement this morning. This is exactly the kind of stuff I was hoping to work on when I signed up to be a member of the Board last year: Monthly Practitioner Call Kick-Off: December 5, 2011 As part of our 2012 goals around community of practice, we’re launching a monthly practitioner call — [...]
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Update: This post is being continuously updated. Check the comments section for the change log. It’s that time of year again, and so I’ve started to add a few 2012 events to my calendar, both the kind I hope to attend in person as well as the ones I’ll likely have to follow remotely. The [...]
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Josh Lerner (Co-Director, The Participatory Budgeting Project) shared this conference announcement via the NCDD listserv: International Conference: Participatory Budgeting in the US and Canada March 2012 New York City, NY From the email: In a time of widespread budget crises and plummeting trust in government, politicians and community members are searching for more democratic and accountable [...]
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If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, you might want to check out this exciting event the IAP2 NorCal Chapter is putting on (I’m chapter co-chair): IAP2 NorCal Event: Fixing Broke(n) Governments through Serious Games, November 17 in San Francisco Governments around the world are all facing budget shortfalls, spending cuts and reduced services. All [...]
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IAP2 Canada together with Noreen Rude from the City of Calgary are hosting a Twitter chat about online engagement next week: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9.30-11.00pm MST (that’s 8.30pm Pacific) Hashtag: #IAP2chat From the flyer (PDF): Online tools for Engagement?!?! Social media to engage? IAP2 Canada and Noreen Rude from the City of Calgary are hosting a [...]
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I look forward to joining this Zócalo/New America Foundation event as co-panelist, October 26, 2011 at Stanford. From the announcement: Zócalo in Palo Alto: Can Technology Save California Governments? California has more than 4,500 local governments, yet it still often feels ungoverned. Proponents of so-called “e-government” say technology can change that: the digital world, they argue, [...]
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I’ll be heading out to Dayton, OH tomorrow to attend the Kettering Foundation’s Deliberative Democracy Exchange 2011: [...] This collaborative event is the Kettering Foundation’s annual opportunity to share our research and to get acquainted with people who have just learned about our work and are looking to learn even more. These research exchanges are also [...]
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On Thursday, I will attend SFOpen 2011, a forum discussion on Open Government with nine of the candidates currently running for the office of Mayor of San Francisco. The event is sponsored by Change.org, GovFresh, WordPress, and various others. From the event site: SFOpen 2011 brings together the 2011 San Francisco Mayoral candidates for a discussion [...]
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Following my previous post about the upcoming Deliberative Poll here in California, I have been invited to attend the event as an observer. From the invitation email: I am writing to invite you to observe an exciting civic engagement event this summer that will help chart the course for California’s future. On June 24-26, a [...]
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The 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2011) kicked off yesterday in College Park, MD. Their topic this year is “Digital Government Innovation in Challenging Times”. While I have yet to attend dg.o in person, it’s been on my radar for a while now, and their 2011 edition looks interesting once again. For example, [...]
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I had a great time co-instigating the first CityCampSF last year, and wanted to give a shout-out to the upcoming sequel: CityCampSF Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM San Francisco Department of Technology Atrium 1 So. Van Ness Second Floor San Francisco CA RSVP: http://ccsf2011.eventbrite.com From the event description: CityCampSF is municipal employees, journalists, [...]
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We had another good trial run today, with a number of new people joining the #edem IRC for the first time. Thanks for coming, everyone! Nothing too momentous was discussed, aside from some general resource sharing and logistics planning for futures chats. If you’re curious, Michael Allan of Votorola has put up a log of [...]
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Following the inaugural IRC chat earlier this month, we’ll be meeting again this coming Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 2pm Pacific Central (9pm 11pm 9pm Berlin): irc.freenode.net #edem The idea is to establish this as an additional standing backchannel to be used especially during conferences and events related to e-participation and e-democracy. In the meantime, we’ll [...]
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The other day, this promising-looking conference popped up on my radar: Collective Intelligence 2012. From the site (emphasis mine): Overview Collective intelligence has existed at least as long as humans have, because families, armies, countries, and companies have all–at least sometimes–acted collectively in ways that seem intelligent. But in the last decade or so a new kind [...]
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I’ll be in San Francisco this Thursday night to meet up with fellow members and friends of the IAP2 NorCal chapter. From the IAP2 USA blog: NorCal Chapter Meetup This Thursday in SF As promised, here are the details for this week’s get-together of the Northern California chapter: IAP2 NorCal Meetup Thursday, May 5 from [...]
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Next week, e-participation folks will gather in Krems, Austria for this year’s Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM11). The conference is hosted by Danube University Krems’s Center for E-Government and “brings together e-democracy, e-participation, e-voting and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and businesses”. A number of sessions look quite interesting, for example: [...]
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It’s great to see the IAP2 Affiliates form in the US and Canada. IAP2 USA, where I serve on the Board, is making great progress, and Canada is only a few weeks behind us it seems. Anyway, I would love to go up to Vancouver for this one: IAP2 BC Chapter Spring Symposium May 19, [...]
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