The Participation Company
Following their very successful 2010 budget puzzle (see our coverage here, here and here), the New York Times today has released another exercise, this time asking participants to identify their preferred approach to cuts to the U.S. defense budget. From their site: The Future Military: Your Budget Strategy The Pentagon has committed to $450 billion [...]
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Someone on Google+ shared this very cool feature the New York Times is offering on their website today. It’s a graphic interface for a poll asking readers to indicate their position in the current debate about the US debt ceiling: The Debt Crisis: What Should Congress Do? The instructions are given as follows: Congress must raise the debt ceiling by Tuesday [...]
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Give a Minute Chicago is a new web and mobile application that asks citizens in the greater Chicago area to submit ideas about what would encourage them to walk, bike or take public transportation more often. Here’s how CEOs for Cities, initiators behind this project, announced it on their website earlier this month: Give a Minute for [...]
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Over on Facebook, the Kettering Foundation asks with regard to the Times’ Budget Puzzle: What do you think: are budgeting exercises like these what we would call “deliberative choice work”? If not, how are they related? For a definition of what Kettering means by choice work, we turn to the ever-competent NCDD resource center and [...]
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The New York Times’ Budget Puzzle has been getting quite a bit of buzz over the past 48 hours. Here’s what I wrote in an email to the NCDD mailing list yesterday: What I find particularly interesting about this implementation is that it comes with a very large number of viable combinations that would all result [...]
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Update 11/14: For more background, see this accompanying NYTimes story: O.K., You Fix the Budget Yesterday, The New York Times launched Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget, an easy-to-use online budget simulator that challenges participants to balance the US federal budget both short and longer-term. From the website: Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s [...]
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