The Participation Company
As mentioned a few days ago, the past week saw the first round of the Open Government Dialogue, a three-phased e-participation initiative launched by the White House that aims to gather public input for the crafting of the Open Government Directive. From their May 21 announcement: Today we are kicking off an unprecedented process for [...]
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As the first phase of the Open Government Dialogue is almost drawing to a close, here’s Intellitics’ humble contribution (as posted a couple of days ago): Create an Open Government project directory and knowledge base The basic idea is to make sure that any important information about past, current or upcoming government projects or programs in the [...]
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Back in November 2000, I attended “Wired for Civic Engagement: Using New Technology to Build Community,” the National Civic League’s 106th National Conference on Governance in Washington, D.C. From the press release: National Civic League Conference to Explore Technology’s Effect on Democracy and Community DENVER – July 12, 2000 – “Wired for Civic Engagement: Using [...]
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The 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government, dg.o 2009, is coming up May 17-20, 2009 in Puebla, Mexico and looks quite interesting. From their call for papers: The dg.o 2009 conference theme “Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government” focuses on Web 2.0 technology, the emerging Social Web, and social network systems that [...]
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Worth checking out, if you happen to be in the area: European eParticipation Day, 4 March 2009 The development and wide use of powerful new ICT applications are transforming the political landscape. These new tools allow citizens to access more information and interact, debate and participate in public life in way not seen before. They [...]
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As mentioned earlier on Twitter, we’ll be presenting Zilino at NCDD’s D&D Marketplace this October. Here’s the outline I just submitted: Zilino — Your Friendly E-participation Engine Introduction to Zilino, a new web application for group problem solving and decision making. Highly interactive discussion of some of the key concepts behind Zilino, our roadmap for [...]
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Intellitics will attend this year’s National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation, October 3-5, 2008 in Austin, Texas. Here’s a quote from the NCDD email newsletter from today that gives you the details: 1. Latest on the 2008 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation: Creating Cultures of Collaboration We know your budget is tight this year, [...]
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These are the slightly modified slides from a quick presentation I gave last night at Web Monday Silicon Valley in San Francisco. It’s a first high-level introduction to our first product, a web application for problem solving and decision making in large groups. | View | Upload your own We hope to have the initial [...]
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Interesting conference coming up right in our backyard: Tools for Participation At the dawn of the 21st century humankind faces challenges of profound proportions. The ability of people around the world to discuss, work, make decisions, and take action collaboratively is one of the most important capabilities for addressing these challenges. Researchers, scholars, activists, advocates, [...]
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This past weekend, Barcamp celebrated its 2-year anniversary at BarCampBlock in Palo Alto, CA. For those who’ve never heard of the concept: BarCamp is an international network of unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols. From the [...]
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