Posts Tagged "democracy"

Democracy in A Digital Globalized World

This is a visually rich, thought provoking presentation explores how digital communication creates the conditions for global democracy. It’s presented by Joe Mitchell, who’s a fan and student of open ...

A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation

This new report by Tina Nabatchi, published by the IBM Center for The Business of Government, provides a practical assessment guide for government program managers who want to know if ...

What creates and sustains active citizenship?

Pathways to Participation is a new report from the UK that explores why and how people participate in their society. A critical finding for public engagement efforts is that too often public consultation changes nothing for citizens but a decreased willingness to continue to be engaged. Also useful is the findings on why participation starts, continues or stops.

Five Great Guides to Online Public Involvement by Governments

After reviewing a number of guides written to help public managers consider how to best choose and apply online tools for public engagement, I’ve selected five as my favourites. Here ...

Four Free e-Democracy Learning Events this Month

There’s a bunch of great e-democracy events happening this June, all of which are accessible remotely. Check out these talks, which feature folks like the White House’s Macon Phillips, Pew’s ...

Civic Technologies in This Magazine

Forty-five years after This Magazine first published, they went to some of their favourite writers and asked them “to recommend the individuals and organizations that most excite them today — ...

Moving Images on Public Participation

I’ve shown up on the video intertubes a few times over the years so thought I’d grab some of those and put them in one place. These videos are all about increasing the public’s role in decision making, or as AmericaSpeaks would say, strengthening our democracy.

The Disconnect Between Deliberative Democracy Theory and Practice

Deliberative theory is relatively isolated from the direct experience of deliberation practitioners. To address this problem, some heavy-weight academics spoke to facilitators of small-group deliberation on public issues to gather their ideas about deliberative norms. Here’s some nuggets from “Norms of Deliberation”.

Online tools and Citizen Engagement

I’ve been participating for a while now in listserves about public engagement for strong, healthy democracies. One topic that sparks my passion is the role of digital media in creating sites of civic participation. Here’s one of my recent contributions.