The Participation Company
Open Government through Participation: Designing Successful Online Consultations View more presentations from Intellitics, Inc. I had a lot of fun this morning presenting at the SXSW Future 15 session on Government and Technology. Thanks again to Julie Germany for the invitation. Ten minutes is not a lot of time to get into much detail though [...]
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We’ve settled on a date and time for our little Open Gov Meetup at SXSW this year. Please join us! Sunday, March 13 from 12 noon to 1.30pm 2nd Street & Brazos parking lot Austin, TX RSVP on Govloop or Plancast Google Map We’ll piggyback on the Foodspotting SxSW Street Food Fest 2011 that’s happening [...]
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Lucas Cioffi (Co-founder and CEO, Online Townhalls) is leading an effort to organize a global series of Local Open Government Innovation Summits in May. From the wiki: Welcome Note These summits will take place between May 14-22, 2011. Organizing teams, led by people who want to improve their own community, have already formed to hold [...]
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Hordes of people are set to descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive next month, and it appears quite a few of them are interested in government and technology, Open Government, Government 2.0 etc. So, why not arrange for a casual get-together? Please head over to Govloop and leave a comment to help us finalize [...]
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In case you haven’t seen, there’s a very interesting event coming up this week. The Deliberative Democracy Workshop “Connecting Research and Practice” will take place February 3-5, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. An invited workshop, it will bring together some of the leading researchers and practitioners in this field from around the world. The expected key [...]
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It took a couple of attempts (see here, here), but now it looks like web-based public participation will finally get some exposure at SXSW this year. Here’s the announcement: Future15 Lineup for 2011: Shorter is Better At the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival, we launched a series of short-form panel content called Future15s. These fast-paced sessions proved [...]
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Here’s the video from the Online Engagement panel at NCDD 2010 Austin (see slides). My 9-minute opening remarks start at around 14:45. Asked about the one big issue or question the panelists were grappling with I stated the following (minimally edited, starts at 35:15): The main challenge that my company is working on is how [...]
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Following this year’s Connect the Dots, the next national student conference is right around the corner: The Citizens’ Toolbox March 16-19, 2011 The Miami University Marcum Conference Center Oxford, OH The conference is “for students but includes professionals, academics, and everyday citizens.” From the website (emphasis mine): Convening a diverse group of students and participants from [...]
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Update 12/21: It appears that OpenEtherpad’s .com domain has expired. Please use the .org domain instead to RSVP for this event: http://openetherpad.org/opengovcgn When it comes to e-participation, Europe really has it going on. It seems hardly a week goes by that doesn’t see some kind of workshop or conference or other activity in that area. [...]
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The IAP2 Northern California chapter, of which I am one of the two co-chairs, is doing a lunch webinar next week: IAP2 NorCal Lunch Webinar Friday, November 19 at 12 noon Pacific Time Web conference details to be announced We’ll update interested members and non-members on the IAP2 transition process and will discuss our future [...]
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I prepared a few slides for my opening remarks on Friday’s panel on Online Engagement at the NCDD 2010 Austin conference (you may notice a bit of overlap with my PACE presentation). Please note that these slides are intended for conference attendees and may not work as well out of context. I may share another [...]
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Based on NCDD’s Core Principles of Public Engagement, the hand-out material at NCDD 2010 Austin includes this tongue-in-cheek list of things not to do: Do everything at the last minute Gather the people that are easiest to gather My way or the highway Trust us — We know how to solve this Keep your cards [...]
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I had a great time today attending the first annual PACE conference in Peoria, AZ. Below are my slides from the closing panel discussion about the role of social media in civic engagement. Thanks to my co-panelist, Nina Simmons, for the pleasant collaboration. The Role of Social Media in Public Participation View more presentations from [...]
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Together with Brian Sullivan, founder and CEO of CivicEvolution, I am preparing an afternoon session for the upcoming NCDD 2010 NorCal conference: Online Public Engagement Learn when and how to incorporate online tools into your public engagement game plan as we review a few case studies. Understand the promises and limitations of different tools for online [...]
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Tom Atlee, founder of the non-profit Co-Intelligence Institute, just sent this invitation to his network about the upcoming NCDD events. With his permission, I’m re-posting it here. Dear friends, I view the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) as one of the most important groups supporting the emergence of democratic participatory wisdom to help societies [...]
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This year’s Future Democracy ’10 will address the issue of crowdsourcing in policy making, among other things. From the latest bulletin: The question of whether ‘crowdsourcing’ techniques – inviting open online comment from the public – are a meaningful way to develop government policy is one of the main topics of debate at this year’s [...]
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I’ve been invited to be part of a webinar hosted by the Security and Sustainability Forum on civic engagement in the area of water resource planning: Civic Engagement – A Tool for Optimizing Community Water Resources Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 11.15am Pacific / 2.15pm Eastern Time RSVP: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/432293736 From the announcement: Civic Engagement for Rivers: [...]
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As part of its Fall 2010 conference series, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) is organizing local events in Denver, Boston, San Francisco Bay Area, Austin and Portland (read about the long list of sponsors here). In addition to the Bay Area event, I just signed up for Austin (November 5, 2010 at St. [...]
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The California Northern Section Young Planners Group (YPG) of the American Planning Association (APA) are hosting an event this Thursday to shed some light on technology-supported, social media-powered public engagement: Public Engagement in the 21st Century Join members of the Young Planners Group on Thursday, October 7th for an evening of education and networking! We will [...]
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