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Category Archives: Community Engagement
Wiki Government (4): Would a wiki be useful for policy development?
Today I am continuing on with my mining of ideas from Ms. Beth Simone Noveck’s book Wiki Government and doing some thinking around how technology could help Edmonton Public Schools in its commitment to public engagement – with the end result of making better decisions as mentioned in the last post. (By the way, a [...]
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Wiki Government (3): Deliberative Democracy Versus Collaborative Democracy
On page 39 Ms. Noveck describes the differences between deliberative and collaborative democracy… which both exist in the realm of participatory democracy and are group-based. She also suggests that the differences are more pronounced on the Internet and that collaboration has become so much easier because of technology.
It is interesting to reflect on these differences [...]
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Wiki Government (2): How can people and groups work with institutions? Can technology help?
More from Wiki Government! On page 29, Ms. Noveck writes, “Countless civic groups already use new communication and information sharing tools to promote political action, operate an opposition movement, or mobilize community activism. Collaborative governance needs to be distinguished from this kind of civic action that is independent of government – change.org instead of change.gov. [...]
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Wiki Government (1): Which public education problems could be better resolved through collaboration? Which would not?
I have been reading Wiki Government by Beth Simone Noveck (Brookings Institution Press, 2009). Stumbling across this book was pure serendipity. The “wiki” originally caught my eye due to my experiments with a SW community wiki for everyone to use to brainstorm ideas and share information around strengthening families, enhancing innovative citizenship education, and improving [...]
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Governance for Public Education…What is ideal?
I have just finished working through the Inspiring Action “transformation guide” on Shared Governance, Collaboration, School Boards, and Natural Person Powers. The final question asks you for any other comments. Here is what I wanted to say, but it exceeds the 100 word limit. This is way longer!
RE: Collaboration. I totally agree that the whole community [...]
Hello, and welcome to Summer! Yeah! And Welcome to Inspiring Action!
Even though it is summertime and time to kick back and relax a little bit, I wanted to bring your attention to an important set of consultations starting right now and happening over the summer and into the fall. As mentioned last time, the Minister of Education has now released a response to the recommendations [...]