The Participation Company
It’s that time of year, and SXSW Interactive (that week-long mass pilgrimage of web, film, music and — for the first time this year with a conference track of their own — education innovators to beautiful Austin, TX) is almost around the corner. Since there’s a good chance I’ll make the trip out there yet once again, I [...]
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The Collaboration Project, an initiative by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), just released a new resource: Tools for Online Idea Generation: A Comparison of Technology Platforms for Public Managers The document is a follow-up to their previous introduction to online group brainstorming, which I thought was a nicely done primer for anyone just getting started with [...]
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This is one of those posts that’s more of a mental note to myself than anything else. Don’t expect to learn anything new if you’re following these conversations already. Over on GovLoop, the difference between Government 2.0 and Open Government is being discussed (probably not for the first, much less for the last time). I [...]
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Update 12/21: It appears that OpenEtherpad’s .com domain has expired. Please use the .org domain instead to RSVP for this event: http://openetherpad.org/opengovcgn When it comes to e-participation, Europe really has it going on. It seems hardly a week goes by that doesn’t see some kind of workshop or conference or other activity in that area. [...]
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From an otherwise interesting post on Govfresh last week about the use of contests in citizen engagement: Collaborative innovation in open government: Is there an app for that? Could contests help us realize the vision of participatory democracy outlined by Thomas Jefferson, where citizens collaborate with government to solve the nation’s most difficult problems? The White [...]
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Towards the end of last week’s Open Gov West conference/unconference in Seattle, WA a series of follow-up meetings on the West Coast was announced, the first of which is scheduled to happen in San Francisco, CA the week after next: San Francisco OGW Meetup: April 12th 6-8 PM We’re continuing the conversations from the Open [...]
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There’s a flurry of conferences, unconferences and hybrids being planned that address Government 2.0 and Open Government, including — of course — the topic of participation. Here’s a list of events on our radar for the first half of 2010: February 5-7, 2010: Gov 2.0 Camp Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA February 17, 2010: Open [...]
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Earlier today, the FASTForward Blog hosted a webinar discussion with Beth Simone Noveck, US Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, and Andrew Rasiej, the co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, titled: Gov 2.0: The Collaborative Opportunities of Open Government A recording of the webinar is available on the FASTForward Blog. I was lucky enough to get [...]
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I just came across this project today (a sure sign I need to refactor my RSS reading habits). From their about page: Background Every two years, EU Ministers gather to agree on a Ministerial Declaration on e-government, which is the main European strategic document. This is usually accompanied by an Industry declaration. We feel the [...]
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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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Back in February, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD), along with a number of other established associations and organization in the field of dialogue, conflict resolution and public participation, launched a collaborative effort to craft a set of principles for public engagement that would inform the Open Government Directive currently being worked on by [...]
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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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