Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the category archives:
In preparation for the upcoming series of NCDD 2010 Regional Events (including the one right here in the Bay Area, October 29), Sandy Heierbacher (Director, NCDD) has asked for input on a question I know has been on the minds of many in the NCDD community for the past few years: “How can we best meld/combine [...]
{ 40 comments }
I had the distinct pleasure to attend all five days of IAP2’s Certificate Training Course in Public Participation last month (check their training calendar for upcoming training opportunities in your area). As I mentioned at the time, it was time well spent!
As per the training materials, here’s what the three training units encompass:
Planning for Effective [...]
{ 2 comments }
This is the third part of a series of discussion starters on contextual aspects of e-participation (part 1 dealt with Institutional Backing, part 2 with Advocacy and Leadership). Contributed by our student intern, they are inspired by his master thesis on e-participation.
Establishing mechanisms for collaborative governance, such as e-participation processes (or public participation processes in [...]
{ 6 comments }
It seems the topic of ethics and integrity in public participation is coming up more often these days (see my comments here, here).
Just for the record, these are the rules by which we at Intellitics abide.
First, we have IAP2’s Core Values for the Practice of Public Participation:
Public participation is based on the belief that those who [...]
{ 7 comments }
Shortly after the newly-elected coalition government in the UK took office this past May, they launched a website that invited the public to comment on their Programme for Government (their policy agenda for the next few years). The site went live on May 20, 2010 and stayed open for feedback for about three weeks, during [...]
{ 6 comments }
I had heard of the DAD acronym before (decide, announce, defend) but was unaware of SCID until it came up during training last week. Here’s what SCID stands for:
Solicit (ask stakeholders for input)
Consider
Ignore
Decide
Obviously, this is not good practice as it violates a number of public participation principles (mainly, you don’t ask for input if the decision [...]
{ 7 comments }
This is the second part of a series of discussion starters on contextual aspects of e-participation. Part 1 was on Institutional Backing. Contributed by our student intern, they are inspired by his master thesis research.
Some e-participation projects originate from within (or from outside) public institutions, but are not decided at the top. Initiators of [...]
{ 4 comments }
I’ve previously written about the importance of expectation management as an essential piece to successful public participation.
With Zilino, our goal is to support the project organizers in managing participants’ expectations from beginning to end. Specifically, we want conveners and facilitators to be very transparent about the level of influence participants can reasonably expect to have on the decision making process.
As [...]
{ 9 comments }
The International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) today announced submissions for their 2010 Core Values Awards are now open. From the President’s email:
I am looking forward to reading the innovations in the 2010 Core Values Awards submissions. These awards are an opportunity to showcase what is leading the practice so that others experience, learn and [...]
{ 4 comments }
Via the Public Decisions blog (co-organizer of the Including the Excluded online conference we’ll be attending), I just found out about a new research effort by Involve, a UK-based not-for-profit offering public participation consulting and services: Quantifying the Value of Engagement: A call for case studies
Dear Colleague,
Involve are embarking on an ambitious project with Consumer Focus [...]
{ 4 comments }
Conversations Elsewhere
