The Participation Company
In December, the White House issued a request for input regarding the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan. Their list of seven questions included one on e-participation. To jog your memory, here it is once again: What are the most effective forms of technology and web tools to encourage public participation, engage with the private sector/non-profit and [...]
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Back in September, when the United States released its U.S. Open Government National Action Plan (PDF), I listed the initiatives it contains in the area of public participation: Open Government Partnership: Public Participation in the US National Plan One item I found particularly appealing. Under ”New initiatives”, the plan states that the U.S. will: Develop Best Practices and Metrics [...]
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It’s been a little over two months since we last took a look at We The People adoption metrics. Lucas Cioffi, NCDD Board member, on Thursday attended a meeting on the Open Government Partnership (OGP), specifically the U.S. Action Plan. He was able to score the following metrics: White House Meeting on OpenGov Action Plan Of [...]
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IAP2 Canada together with Noreen Rude from the City of Calgary are hosting a Twitter chat about online engagement next week: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9.30-11.00pm MST (that’s 8.30pm Pacific) Hashtag: #IAP2chat From the flyer (PDF): Online tools for Engagement?!?! Social media to engage? IAP2 Canada and Noreen Rude from the City of Calgary are hosting a [...]
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Update 09/29 at 2.18pm: According to this tweet from Macon Phillips, there have been “500k signatures from 300k ppl on 6500 petitions.” In the post below, I forgot to mention that petitions must gain 150 signatures before they can be included in the public listing. I’ve updated the post accordingly. The White House e-petition site [...]
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Moments ago, the White House unveiled their new online petition service, We The People: We The People is Live! Welcome to We the People on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you with a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. If a petition gets enough [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I shared a few questions related to the public participation aspects of the new We The People e-petition site. Earlier today, the White House went into some detail answering all six of them: What the People Want to Know About We the People In the same post, White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips [...]
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Over on Google+, Popvox CEO Marci Harris points to an article on The Hill from Friday that shows where the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction is apparently headed with regard to public participation: Sen. Baucus seeks deficit-cutting ideas — but only from Montanans Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), one of the 12 members of [...]
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We had another good trial run today, with a number of new people joining the #edem IRC for the first time. Thanks for coming, everyone! Nothing too momentous was discussed, aside from some general resource sharing and logistics planning for futures chats. If you’re curious, Michael Allan of Votorola has put up a log of [...]
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Following the inaugural IRC chat earlier this month, we’ll be meeting again this coming Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 2pm Pacific Central (9pm 11pm 9pm Berlin): irc.freenode.net #edem The idea is to establish this as an additional standing backchannel to be used especially during conferences and events related to e-participation and e-democracy. In the meantime, we’ll [...]
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Now here‘s an interesting project, scheduled to happen in California next month (via). From the press release: Coalition of Reformers, Academics and Foundations to Conduct California’s First-Ever Statewide Deliberative Poll SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A coalition of non-partisan reform organizations, academics and journalists today announced that they will partner with Stanford University’s Center for Deliberative Democracy to conduct [...]
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Earlier today, a new UK government site launched which I’m sure will be very much worth watching. From the about page: What is Alpha.gov.uk? Alpha.gov.uk is an experimental prototype of a new, single website for UK Government, developed in line with the recommendations of Martha Lane-Fox’s Review. The site is a demonstration, and whilst it’s [...]
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Open Government through Participation: Designing Successful Online Consultations View more presentations from Intellitics, Inc. I had a lot of fun this morning presenting at the SXSW Future 15 session on Government and Technology. Thanks again to Julie Germany for the invitation. Ten minutes is not a lot of time to get into much detail though [...]
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Lucas Cioffi (Co-founder and CEO, Online Townhalls) is leading an effort to organize a global series of Local Open Government Innovation Summits in May. From the wiki: Welcome Note These summits will take place between May 14-22, 2011. Organizing teams, led by people who want to improve their own community, have already formed to hold [...]
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It took a couple of attempts (see here, here), but now it looks like web-based public participation will finally get some exposure at SXSW this year. Here’s the announcement: Future15 Lineup for 2011: Shorter is Better At the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival, we launched a series of short-form panel content called Future15s. These fast-paced sessions proved [...]
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One year ago today, we launched a neat little site: ParticipateDB Here’s what the 40+ contributors have been able to collect so far: 160 tools 202 projects 118 references 20+ countries There’s a lot more out there that deserves to be catalogued, but it’s a start. Looking forward to year two!
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Our panel idea for SXSW 2010 from a few weeks ago made it to the next round and is now up for community voting. Here’s the final phrasing as submitted: 14 Ways to Make Online Citizen Participation Work What is public participation? (incl. definition of the term, design principles, common success metrics) What are typical challenges [...]
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