Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the category archives:
Three interesting threads to highlight this week:
For the second time, NCDD ran a “featured member” post and attracted a few good questions and answers: Today’s Featured NCDD Member: Healthy Democracy Oregon
Over on the NCDD Forum, Matt Leighninger asks (great discussion, to be continued): Better to convene, or to aggregate? (and how?)
My own post on online/offline [...]
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Reading up on the Knight Foundation’s Technology for Engagement Inititative as they’ve just announced their first round of five projects to receive funding, I came across Boston, MA-based Engagement Game Lab. From their mission statement:
The Engagement Game Lab at Emerson College is devoted to forging a place for games in urban civic life. The faculty, [...]
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Just a few threads to point to this week, a couple of which prompted me to highlight IAP2’s core values and code of ethics:
Andrea di Maio covers a report by The Guardian on Programme for Government, I point out that this was not crowdsourcing and reiterate the list of possible reasons why this effort failed (in [...]
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Beth Offenbacker of Public Decisions just announced they will be hosting a weekly Twitter chat on public engagement, starting two weeks from now:
Starting on Tuesday, August 17, PublicDecisions will begin hosting a weekly Twitter chat from 18:00-19:00 Eastern (New York) / 22:00-23:00 GMT on topics related to public engagement. (Check your respective time zone at [...]
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Lathrop & Ruma (eds.): Open Government: Transparency, Collaboration and Participation in Practice. O’Reilly, 2010.
Years from now, people will look back at the Open Government movement and attribute its beginnings to the release of this book. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. The movement has been live and at large since well before this [...]
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Announcing that this was going to be a weekly segment on the blog may have been a bit premature (some weeks are just too busy while others are too slow), but let’s get back to presenting some of the interesting conversations we’re getting into elsewhere around the web, shall we?
Last week, David Eaves (whom I [...]
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Late last week, a new consultation was announced in Europe: Digital Agenda: Commission launches consultation on net neutrality
A consultation on key questions arising from the issue of net neutrality has been launched by the European Commission today. It covers such issues as whether internet providers should be allowed to adopt certain traffic management practices, prioritising one [...]
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Update 07/06/2010: Apparently, the site isn’t new at all (new to me, though). My bad. Still… nice work!
Once again, the UK leads the way and shows us what’s possible…
The newly launched TellThemWhatYouThink.org is a website that promises to bring citizens a lot closer to the consultations that affect them. From the website:
We collect government consultations into one [...]
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Gütersloh, Germany-based Bertelsmann Stiftung, one of Germany’s largest foundations, just launched vitalizing-democracy.org, the theme site for their 2011 Reinhard Mohn Prize.
From the welcome post: Welcome to our platform!
On 23 June 2010, the Bertelsmann Stiftung launched this website in order to search for prize-worthy projects for the Reinhard Mohn Prize 2011.
With the forthcoming prize in 2011, the Bertelsmann [...]
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And now for something fun: talking about participation — more often, with more people, and in ways that allow more people to tune in.
That’s the idea behind This Week in Participation (TWiP), a new program we just launched. Here’s what it’s about:
This Week in Participation (TWiP) is kind of like an internet radio show. Except [...]
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Conversations Elsewhere
