Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
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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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The deadline to submit session ideas for SXSW ‘10 has been extended through Sunday, July 12 (midnight Austin, TX time).
Over the past few days, I have had a number of interesting conversations here at No Better Time about how the Open Government Initiative could have been improved. I have a hunch that a significant level of [...]
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I’ll be taking the red-eye to Boston tonight on my way to what looks like a great conference: No Better Time: Promising Opportunities in Deliberative Democracy for Educators and Practitioners
The conference is hosted by The Democracy Imperative and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
From their website:
What are the conference’s objectives?
Deliberative democracy has reached a critical point in [...]
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On Monday night, the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Northern California chapter hosted a Mini-Symposium on “The Future of Public Participation” in San Francisco, CA.
I had been asked to give a brief talk about social media in public participation. Having recently spent a considerable amount of time and effort monitoring and tracking various e-participation initiatives [...]
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While working on the previous post, I couldn’t help but think how valuable it would be for participants, researchers and everyone else interested if these high-level participation metrics were readily available in real-time on the site that hosts the discussion, rather than having to dig them up manually and deal with incomplete information, assumptions and more or [...]
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Phase 2 of the Open Government Dialogue has been under way for almost a week now. Following the brainstorm phase, which ran from May 22 through May 28 (see our coverage here, here and here), this discusson phase was launched June 3 and is being hosted by the Office for Science & Technology Policy (OSTP).
The tool used [...]
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