The Participation Company
I’ve been invited to be a panelist at the PACE conference in Peoria, AZ next month: A Conference on “Authentic Public Participation” There are over 4.5 million voices in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. They’re getting louder…Are you listening??? What is Civic Engagement? What is authentic public participation? How can you get involved in your community [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Looks like I finally get to attend one of the many events on Gov 2.0 and Open Government: Open Gov West The greater Northwest and Cascadia region is buzzing with innovative technology and civic engagement organizations, and a number of governments throughout the area have already launched open government directives. Hosted by the City of [...]
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From the website: 30 June – 2 July, 2010 Leeds University Business School, UK The widespread diffusion of the Internet and a growing trend towards democratisation worldwide have encouraged new modes, projects and visions of citizen participation in decision making and governance. OD2010 aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from a wide range [...]
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Following some peer recommendations (here, here), I just signed up for Including the Excluded – The 2010 Stakeholder Engagement Online Conference, March 2-4, 2010: About This Conference Conference Theme: Equity, Accessibility and Social Inclusion Effectively engaging diverse people or groups can be challenging; what works well for the majority may not work as well for some [...]
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The report from last year’s No Better Time conference is now available: No Better Time: A 2010 Report on Opportunities and Challenges for Deliberative Democracy (PDF, 1.1 MB) Executive summary In July 2009, more than 250 campus and community leaders came together at the University of New Hampshire to talk about the “deliberative democracy” field, [...]
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There’s a flurry of conferences, unconferences and hybrids being planned that address Government 2.0 and Open Government, including — of course — the topic of participation. Here’s a list of events on our radar for the first half of 2010: February 5-7, 2010: Gov 2.0 Camp Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA February 17, 2010: Open [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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