Here's a short article (PDF) I wrote for the latest edition of APA Technology Division's quarterly newsletter about the ParticipateDB relaunch that's currently underway: ParticipateDB: Digital Engagement Tech Catalogue Tim Bonnemann Founder & CEO of Intellitics, Inc. Digital engagement, the use of information and communications technologies to involve the public in decision making and planning [...]
Quick follow-up on the earlier post, here's Marketplace with a slightly shorter version of the piece: Hey, let's crowdsource this California law!
I was interviewed last week by Katie Orr, State Government Reporter at Capitol Public Radio in Sacramento, CA to talk about California Assemblyman Mike Gatto's recent open policymaking experiment (see our coverage here). You can read and listen to the entire segment online: Lawmaker Turns to Crowdsourcing to Create Legislation. Here are the two quotes [...]
The other week, I got to do an interview with Queena Kim of Marketplace. Her short piece on the City of San Francisco's recent push to take participatory budgeting online aired on Marketplace Morning Report earlier today. Here's my quote (transcript mine): "One of the smarter uses of technology that I've seen with participatory budgeting [...]
My Twitter commentary yesterday about LA Mayor Eric Garcetti's "Fix DWP!" online petition site (here, here) got picked up by NextCity correspondent Nancy Scola, who interviewed me for her piece. Here's the quote: But engaging the public in a policy battle is a tough thing to pull off, said Tim Bonnemann, founder and CEO of [...]
I'm quoted in the Economist today: Government by (all) the people [...] Successful examples of legislation by the masses are rare. Most people don’t know how to write laws. Tim Bonnemann, the founder of Intellitics, an American firm specialising in public-participation tools, says a better method is to canvas views widely but use a small [...]
I was invited to contribute one of three short op-eds about the upcoming Deliberative Poll "What's Next California?" for Zócalo Public Square, an online magazine on civic issues based in Los Angeles, CA. You can read all three of them here (scroll to the bottom for mine): Hurdles Remain, But It’s a Start The second of [...]
I was recently invited to write a short article about ParticipateDB for the Spring edition of GSA Office of Citizen Services and Communications' Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter (PDF, 3.4 MB). Here's a quote that describes one of the challenges ParticipateDB tries to address: The Challenge While public participation is at the core of our democracy, e-participation, as it [...]
Last week, Federal Computer Week published an op-ed they had invited me to write on the issue of crowdsourcing, public participation and how the former might be applied in the context of the latter: The outer limits to the crowd's wisdom If you are a frequent reader of this blog, you know that this is something [...]