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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Like last year, we’re taking a quick moment to look back at the topics that stood out over the past twelve months. Here are our top 10 most popular posts of 2011: February 14: Calgary Budget Consultation: 13 Design Principles February 21: CRS Report on Open Government Initiative March 7: How To Create Policy on a Wiki March [...]
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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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We’ve settled on a date and time for our little Open Gov Meetup at SXSW this year. Please join us! Sunday, March 13 from 12 noon to 1.30pm 2nd Street & Brazos parking lot Austin, TX RSVP on Govloop or Plancast Google Map We’ll piggyback on the Foodspotting SxSW Street Food Fest 2011 that’s happening [...]
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Hordes of people are set to descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive next month, and it appears quite a few of them are interested in government and technology, Open Government, Government 2.0 etc. So, why not arrange for a casual get-together? Please head over to Govloop and leave a comment to help us finalize [...]
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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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Like last year, the vast majority of session proposals for SXSW ’11 in the Open Government category seem to focus on transparency and open data. Here are five sessions that look interesting from a participation perspective (including ours, of course): Social Powered Community Planning – How Now Open Government through Participation: Designing Successful Online Consultations [...]
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As is the tradition with South by South West, they do a great job of allowing the community to help design the conference program. Their famous Panel Picker application went live this morning, and this is the session proposal we submitted: Open Government through Participation: Designing Successful Online Consultations Public participation—the process of engaging citizens and stakeholders [...]
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In preparation for our potential panel at SXSW 2010 and in an effort to give people a better understanding what our topic is all about, I’m putting together a mini series of posts around some of the recommendations we plan to share. This post is the second part of this series and addresses the importance [...]
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In preparation for our potential panel at SXSW 2010 and in an effort to give people a better understanding what our topic is all about, I’m putting together a mini series of posts around some of the recommendations we plan to share. This post is the first part of this series and addresses the importance [...]
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As you know, we’re trying to get our panel “14 Ways to Make Online Citizen Participation Work” accepted to SXSW 2010. Yes, the polls are still open so head on over to the Panel Picker and sign up to cast your vote of support, thanks! I am very excited to join forces with two exceptional [...]
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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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The deadline to submit session ideas for SXSW ’10 has been extended through Sunday, July 12 (midnight Austin, TX time). Over the past few days, I have had a number of interesting conversations here at No Better Time about how the Open Government Initiative could have been improved. I have a hunch that a significant level [...]
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