Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
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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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The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) just announced a series of regional one-day events for later this Fall. The Bay Area event is scheduled for Friday, October 29, 2010 at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. From the website:
The events will build on what we learned in the past year and a half [...]
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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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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 Gov West [...]
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As we’re gearing up for our trip to Seattle, WA to attend Open Gov West this Friday and Saturday, I saw Travis Kriplean on Twitter ask whether sessions will be recorded.
Here’s my plea:
I encourage every attendee to bring their audio, photo and video gear and help record as many sessions as possible. I find that [...]
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Looks like I finally get to attend one of the many events on Gov 2.0 and Open Government:
Open Gov West
The greater Northwest and Cascadia region is buzzing with innovative technology and civic engagement organizations, and a number of governments throughout the area have already launched open government directives. Hosted by the City of Seattle and [...]
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For some time, I’ve been suggesting the creation of a national public participation calendar and project directory as a key component of the Open Government Directive:
May 2009: Open Government Dialogue: “Create an Open Government Project Directory and Knowledge Base”
January 2010: Open Government Needs Public Participation Calendars
Based on this post on NextGov, it looks like the U.S. Environmental [...]
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A few days ago, a new site was launched that helps track activity across the 23 federal agencies that are using IdeaScale for their consultations on Open Government: OpenGov Tracker
This webpage makes use of the IdeaScale API to aggregate data for all agencies which are making use of that platform. USDA and Health and Human [...]
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