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Local Collaboration Platforms
These sites are a completely free version of the UserVoice Ultimate package, which includes multiple filters, moderation, and custom design, as long as the site is open to the public and supported by a government organization.
UserVoice for Civic Engagement
Environmental Conflict Tools
While not as sexy as politician elbow jabbing, the race to develop winning political platforms for the 2012 U.S. election cycle is a hot contest among strategists and programmers. Following its win in 2008, Blue State Digital is the shop to beat. The company built the dynamic My.BarackObama.com and enabled the president’s campaign to integrate CRM, fundraising, email and other communications, along with organizing tools for their field program. The historic results were so revolutionary that it has since been copied by other candidates, issue groups and consumer marketers, leading to the clogging of countless inboxes with three years worth of cookie-cutter calls to action.
2012 Election: 3 Digital Platforms Poised to Change the Conversation
ODET 2010: Online Deliberation Emerging Tools | OLnet
Welcome!... to the website for ODET 2010: Online Deliberation Emerging Tools (Leeds, 30 June), a workshop co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (30 June–2 July, 2010). Sponsored by Hewlett Foundation's OLnet Project & Leeds University Centre for Digital Citizenship .
As every news organization in America crowdsources their Palin email research, Iceland is months deep in a project to crowdsource the writing of a new constitution. The recovering European nation's existing constitution is essentially a carbon copy of Denmark's, Iceland claiming independence from Denmark in 1944. There were slight adjustments, like replacing the word "king" with "president," but after the financial crisis that brought Iceland's economy to its knees in 2008, the country's decided to start from scratch. The approach uses a combination of social media platforms-- Facebook , Twitter , YouTube , Flickr --to gather suggestions from the citizens, and members of a consitutional council post drafts on their website every week.
Iceland is Crowdsourcing Its New Constitution
As part of this research cluster, we’re trying to develop an analytical framework for understanding the range of Web2.0 tools that can be deployed in governance settings in support of citizen engagement, participation, deliberation and collaboration. I am proposing that there are six categories that can explain the different tools, mechanisms and functions that can be used in support of citizen engagement. These are: I’d really appreciate comments as we’d like to get this right. The short form of this question is: does this framework capture every likely tool or approach, and is it a useful way to organize things?
Is Gov2.0 Reducible to 6 Categories of Activity?
2011 Gov 2.0 year in review - O'Reilly Radar
By most accounts, the biggest stories of 2011 were the Arab Spring, the historic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and the death of Osama Bin Laden. In each case, an increasingly networked world experienced those events together through the growing number of screens. At the beginning of the year, a Pew Internet survey emphasized the Internet's importance in civil society . By year's end, more people were connected than ever before.
e-Participation and Online Deliberation
I’ve been pulling together bits of background reading over the last two weeks, particularly in the area of interface design for e-participation and designing systems for deliberation. This is far from an exhaustive list of papers, but I hope I have covered the main points regarding design for deliberation and e-participation. An important starting point for electronic enhancement of deliberation may be seen as far back as 1970 with Kunz and Rittel and their IBIS collaboration framework, then Conklin & Begeman in 1987 developing a GUI on top of IBIS (gIBIS) – an early example of the harnessing of technological advances to enhance collaborative processes. This framework was actually “a deliberative platform for design” in the software industry rather than a design for deliberation but serves as a good basis to start the discussion of collaborative and deliberative connected software.
UK Citizens Online Democracy
UK Citizens Online Democracy (or UKCOD ) is a registered charity in England and Wales. At present, UKCOD's main activity is running the mySociety project. mySociety builds websites which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. It also aims to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to use the internet most efficiently to improve lives. The current flagship projects are: Early history (pre-mySociety)Citizen Space - open source consultation software
The Government of South Australia were looking for the best tool to centralise their consultation activity online. They chose Citizen Space.
Democracy 2.0
In the context of our exploration of innovative digital institutions and models for governance, we are seeking to understand what role dispute resolution mechanisms — as elements of an emerging digital infrastructure — may play. Building upon research conducted in 2009 and a number of smaller workshops hosted by the Law Lab, we are focused on exploring the scope and capabilities of crowd-sourced online dispute resolution (ODR). This project investigates the theory and practice of applying the principles of “crowdsourcing” to new challenges in ODR. We have a draft white paper on the topic which explores the theoretical territory in more detail and maps areas for future research.
Crowdsourcing Online Dispute Resolution
Regulation Room
January 11, 2012 - Final Summary for the Air Travel Accessibility Rule. The final summary has been posted and submitted to Regulations.gov. You can view the final summary by clicking on the links below:CivicEvolution
CivicEvolution helps citizens create community written and supported plans to solve community problems–it helps us think together so we can act together. Ultimately, citizens experience themselves as authentic participants in the creative co-governance of their communities CivicEvolution has partnered with the City of Greater Geraldton in Western Australia for their Sustainable Future City Project, 2029 and Beyond . Their mission is to develop a sustainable future city and region plan by and for the community. CivicEvolution is providing tools and processes in the 2029 and Beyond CivicEvolution home page for engaging citizen participants in deliberative collaboration to develop ideas and proposals for the sustainable community planning project.Dialogue App | Features
The Dialogue App was designed in collaboration with the National Academy of Public Administration specifically for the needs of government policy discussion.Welcome! This is the website for the book Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice , edited by Todd Davies and Seeta Peña Gangadharan (CSLI Publications, November 2009).