| From: | "Jim Powell" <autoinfo(at)acenet.co.za> |
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| Date: | Sat, 23 May 2009 12:16:36 +0200 |
| Subject: | RE: [WDDM] [Fwd: [DW] Query - Civic Problem-Solving Using Social Media] ... CORRECTION |
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Hi Doug, Went onto the site www.sociocracy.org . Seems to be commercial with no DD Regards Jim From: Doug Everingham
[dnevrghm(at)powerup.com.au] Subject: Re: [WDDM] [Fwd: [DW] Query - Civic Problem-Solving Using Social Media] ... CORRECTION Date: 21 May 2009 5:31:50 PM To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net Reply-To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.netSORRY– In my message copied below www.sciocracy.org is WRONG. It should read www.sociocracy.org . TO AGGRAVATE MY ERROR, Irepeated it in my 21 May CORRECTION. I TRUST this time 'sociocracy' replaces wrong 'sciocracy' in web site title (amended above & below) – Doug ==== Dear Antonio Rossin & Steven Clift, The practical examples quoted to me (as distinct from theoretical planning) as guides to more democratic social structures include • your (Antonio's) informed early parenting workshops, • the www.sociocracy.org examples, and • several types of nested / cross-liaising networks of stakeholders coordinating levels and inter-related fields of management / control discussed by Shann Turnbull in many writings including – Doug Everingham ==== From: rossin(at)tin.it Subject: [WDDM] [Fwd: [DW] Query - Civic Problem-Solving Using Social Media] Date: 16 May 2009 7:28:49 AM To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net Reply-To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net From: Steven Clift <clift(at)e-democracy.org> Date: 16 May 2009 3:48:33 AM Subject: [DW] Query - Civic Problem-Solving Using Social Media Reply-To: clift(at)publicus.net In a couple of weeks I am doing a presentation for a foundation that on top of community engagement is interested in community problem-solving. I'd like to share some great online examples. Can you help me out? The "e-democracy" world has extensively explored way to give the public a voice online, attempted to create better input into government decision-making, worked on transparency and information access, and of course it has been used a tool for advocacy, protest, and election campaigning. * What _online assisted_ examples of community problem-solving, direct citizen action addressing a need/goal, or engaging stakeholders in a more effective and collaborative implementation of government or non-profit program do you know about? * What tools and models to they use? * What lessons do they have to share? Send input to: clift(at)e-democracy.org OR http://e-democracy.org/contact Or discuss publicly at: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/consult I hear terms like Government 2.0 picking up steam, but they still have government rather than the public (Citizens 2.0) at the center which isn't my vision for how this could work best at the local level in particular. (Government 2.0 might be fine at the state and national level.) I explored the concept of "public net-work" back a few years ago for the OECD - http://stevenclift.com/?p=101 - which might just be what people now think of as Gov 2.0. Those early examples need a refresh. Anyway, as E-Democracy.Org's neighborhood and smaller rural community Issues Forums - http://forums.e-democracy.org - are growing (one million page views in the last year across our 15 community network), it is at that level I see people just starting to move from talk toward action/problem-solving on some issues. A simple example is an effort to start a community garden launched on my neighborhood forum - http://e-democracy.org/se - leading to a group meeting in-person to move the idea forward. I wonder what additional online tools/strategies might be deployed to super charge such an effort to help it get to its goal more effectively and efficiently? I am also interested in tools for use by "problem solvers" meaning those tasked to take action - say on a government task force with non-profit/citizen stakeholders and real money to spend - and work in a more online enriched collaborative manner? When you shift from input into initial decision-making, to direct involvement in implementing the budgets allocated after the main policy decisions were made, how can we do that work in a 2.0 sort of way? (I am making the assumption that we are moving beyond closed "we are your government, we will now serve you" models to something different/better.) Have thoughts? Examples? Send input to: clift(at)e-democracy.org http://e-democracy.org/contact Or discuss publicly at: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/consult Thanks, Steven Clift |