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citizen engagement
Conversation with Authors: Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation with Prof. Tina Nabatchi
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 - 13:08
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Learn from Prof. Tina Nabatchi how program managers can assess whether their efforts to increase citizen participation in their programs are making a difference.
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Mon, 05/07/2012
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Learn how program managers can assess whether their efforts to increase citizen participation in their programs are making a difference.
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Does Citizen Participation Work?
Monday, January 30th, 2012 - 18:31
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 17:28
A new report, “A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation,” by Tina Nabatchi, an assistant professor at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, is designed to help answer these questions.
Dr. Nabatchi says “Two types of evaluation are relevant for assessing citizen participation:”
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A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation
Monday, January 30th, 2012 - 11:19
The Obama administration’s Open Government Initiative is now three years old. But is it making a difference? Dr. Nabatchi’s report is a practical guide for program managers who want to assess whether their efforts to increase citizen participation in their programs are making a difference. She lays out evaluation steps for both the implementation and management of citizen participation initiatives, as well as how to assess the impact of a particular citizen participation initiative.
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Michel Coconis
This looks like a promising addition to this form of evaluation.
Dorine Bates
Having citizen participation is very important to our government initiatives. This is how the U.S. can improve customer satisifaction in government. Enhancing citizen participation is allowing citizens to be apart of the decision making process. Having transparency is being open. I think President Obama said it best "Our commitment to openness means more than simply informing the American people about how decisions are made". The American people are demanding more open government, to many people in the past have made decsion about them and it was not in the best interest of them. I do believe the American people are starting to figure out the more they particiapate the more they are informed. This can be done be town hall meeting, brainstorming sessions, connecting with real issues that affects them personally. Why is this important, public participation is the essential in American participation in government, our views should be open to all, accessible, and transparent.
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Engaging Citizens vs. Streamlining Bureaucracy
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 - 9:37
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 08:33
Fast-forward to 2012, where there’s an Administration promoting Open Government and citizen engagement via the internet and social media. The old law, affectionately called FACA by government insiders, is still in force and increasingly irrelevant as agencies look for ways around its strictures to seek citizen and expert input. But the original goals of the law are still very much a priority – to promote citizen participation and transparency, to ensure objectivity in advice to fe
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Daniel Bevarly
Good post on a very important issue and legislation for many reasons. Citizens must follow and stay abreast. Also notable for the fact this addresses a "Gov 2.0" challenge that doesn't involve data per se, rather is focused on that dynamic component of (online) democracy known as dialog.
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Is Open Government Dead?
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 - 11:37
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 11:30
For example, Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa’s article “The Death of Open Government” followed the resignation announcement of the federal government’s chief information officer – and Open Government champion -- Vivek Kundra. But President Obama’s signature Open Government initiative does live. It is just that there may be a shift in emphasis from a focus on transparency to a focus on citizen engagement.
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Assessing Public Participation in an Open Government Era
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 - 12:59
The plans of top agencies have been assessed by both the government and advocacy groups to see if they met the requirements laid out in the directives, often with an emphasis on the degree to which they increase transparency. This report focuses on how well these agency plans increase public participation and collaboration.
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Cheryl Honey
This is an invaluable resource and will help inform public officials on effective ways to engage citizens in public policy decisions. There are many tools and techniques to choose from. This will be very informative and help lead the way for "high-quality public participation." Thank you for taking the initiative to publish this report.
Cheryl Honey
This promises to offer communities insight into a variety of ways to engage citizens in public policy issues. There have been a myriad of tools and techniques developed over the past 4 years that include citizens in "decision-making" and "choice-creating". It's exciting to see the shift from random selection to large group engagement processes like the Community Forum that was a citizen initiative passed into law in King Co., Washington. The more people involved in learning about issues and sharing their opinions the more educated they become to make wiser choices to benefit the broader community.
Owen Ambur
The recommendations set forth in the report are now available in StratML format at http://xml.gov/stratml/drybridge/index.htm#AS or, more specifically, http://xml.gov/stratml/carmel/APPOGEwStyle.xml
Findings One and Four are closely related to the purposes of the StratML standard: http://xml.gov/stratml/index.htm#DefinitionPurposes
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Conversations with Authors: Using Online Tools to Engage – and be Engaged by –The Public
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 - 11:21
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Mr. Leighninger begins to pull back the veil on how the various online engagement tactics and tools can be used, and when they work best.
Radio show date:
Sat, 12/03/2011
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While all federal agencies have developed “open government plans,” many managers find themselves unfamiliar with what tactics and tools work best, under different scenarios.
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Using Online Tools to Engage – and be Engaged by –The Public
Monday, May 16th, 2011 - 10:56
Mr. Leighninger’s report begins to pull back the veil on how the various online engagement tactics and tools can be used, and when they work best.
His report describes common scenarios where public managers may find themselves needing, or using, public input. He describe a mix of ten different tactics managers may find useful for engaging the public online and highlights over 40 different technologies in use today to support those kinds of engagements.
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Ruby Sinreich
I hope to see some of these tactics (and more) utilized in the development of Chapel Hill's new Comprehensive Plan.
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Open Gov Plans Released, And . . .
Friday, April 9th, 2010 - 5:17
. . . Both the White House and the Open Government advocacy groups plan to assess them. No good deed goes unnoticed!
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Topic 4: Technology, Transparency, and Participatory Democracy
Friday, February 26th, 2010 - 17:36
President Obama issued a memorandum on Transparency and Open Government following his inauguration in early 2009. The memo outlined his commitment to greater transparency, increased citizen participation, and more collaboration. This commitment acknowledges that government cannot solve by itself the challenges facing our nation.
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