Reflecting on Public Participation in Our Time
Frances Bula, reporter with The Globe and Mail, interviewed Susanna Haas Lyons for the national newspaper’s recent article about public engagement with online tools. The new democracy: Surrey to launch ...
Simon Fraser University’s Public Square community engagement project is using innovative engagement techniques to connect town and gown on pressing public issues. For example, after a recent youth summit on ...
“UBC researcher Susanna Haas Lyons turned to social networking to help the Greenest City Conversations project get residents’ input on transportation,” is the photo caption on a recent Georgia Straight ...
Digital democracy pioneer Chris Quigley presented yesterday at a digital democracy event I organized that attracted over 30 Vancouverites. Chris’ shared with work with Delib, a UK-based online engagement firm ...
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 ...
In what ways does Internet-enabled policy forums enrich democratic citizenship in the United States and Europe? This is the theme of a new book collaboration from 19 researchers, edited by ...
The Citizens League asked a group of teens how to best involve their peers in online civic engagement. At two Students Speak Out Design Challenge workshops, held in Minnesota and ...
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.
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 ...
There are so many options when it comes to using digital tools to engage the public, it can be hard to know where to start. If you only do three things to engage the public online, and you’re a small to medium sized municipal government, here’s what they should be: