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Brainstorming Policy Ideas Online: We’re Not There Yet!

by Tim on July 19, 2010

Doing a bit of research on Spending Challenge the other night, Stephen Whitehead alerted me to his excellent post on the subject: Three lessons from the Treasury’s Spending Challenge fiasco
The article touches upon three important concepts (great analysis, make sure to read it in full):

Asking the right questions
Collaborative brainstorming
Objective-driven public participation

I wanted to highlight the section [...]

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Did the UK Spending Challenge Fall Victim to SCID?

by Tim on July 19, 2010

I had heard of the DAD acronym before (decide, announce, defend) but was unaware of SCID until it came up during training last week. Here’s what SCID stands for:

Solicit (ask stakeholders for input)
Consider
Ignore
Decide

Obviously, this is not good practice as it violates a number of public participation principles (mainly, you don’t ask for input if the decision [...]

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Crowdsourcing and Public Participation II

by Tim on January 3, 2010

Richard Fahey has a detailed post up about an interesting crowdsourcing idea that has been proposed by the Conservative Party in the UK: £1m prize for citizen participation platform
Earlier this week the UK Conservative party promised to offer a £1m cash prize to a person or team that creates an online platform that can be used [...]

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