Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the category archives:
This just in via the The Democracy Imperative newsletter:
We’re happy to start the New Year with this announcement: the students who attended the No Better Time conference last July were inspired to take the initiative and host their own event, Connect the Dots: Public Dialogue, Deliberation, and Community Problem Solving & Action. If you missed NBT, [...]
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Just came across a reference to this little gem of a conference right in our backyard:
2010 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy and U.S. Conference on Initiative and Referendum
“constitution making and direct democracy”
Saturday, July 31 through Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
From the brochure (PDF, 588KB):
Dear Fellow Global Citizen,
We invite you to what we expect to be a [...]
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Earlier today, the FASTForward Blog hosted a webinar discussion with Beth Simone Noveck, US Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, and Andrew Rasiej, the co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, titled: Gov 2.0: The Collaborative Opportunities of Open Government
A recording of the webinar is available on the FASTForward Blog. I was lucky enough to get one [...]
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Session notes and related resources from the “No Better Time” conference at the University of New Hampshire back in July are now available for download on their resources page.
Measuring and metrics was a hot topic that was discussed at the following learning exchanges:
Embedding Deliberative Practices in Local Democracy (session notes, PDF):
This would need some further digging into, but lots [...]
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In preparation for our potential panel at SXSW 2010 and in an effort to give people a better understanding what our topic is all about, I’m putting together a mini series of posts around some of the recommendations we plan to share. This post is the first part of this series and addresses the importance [...]
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As you know, we’re trying to get our panel “14 Ways to Make Online Citizen Participation Work” accepted to SXSW 2010. Yes, the polls are still open so head on over to the Panel Picker and sign up to cast your vote of support, thanks!
I am very excited to join forces with two exceptional co-panelists, [...]
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Our panel idea for SXSW 2010 from a few weeks ago made it to the next round and is now up for community voting. Here’s the final phrasing as submitted:
14 Ways to Make Online Citizen Participation Work
What is public participation? (incl. definition of the term, design principles, common success metrics)
What are typical challenges of web-based participation? [...]
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At the Strengthening Our Nation’s Democracy 2 event in DC this week, IAP2 Director John Godec was one of the 100 or so attendees. He shared a brief summary on Facebook. With his permission, I am re-posting it here:
I had to run to catch a flight immediately after our Tuesday afternoon presentation to three key, [...]
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I’ll do my best to be at TransparencyCamp West next weekend, August 8-9 in Mountain View, CA. From their site, here’s what it’s all about:
This un-conference is about convening a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists — to share knowledge on how to [...]
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Intellitics will attend the 2009 IAP2 Annual Conference “Making Sustainable Decisions”, September 21-23, 2009 in San Diego, CA. From their website:
Making Sustainable Decisions
In recent years, sustainability has become the watchword for many human, social, corporate and governmental endeavors. In some formulations, there are three “pillars” and in others there are four. Others refer to this [...]
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