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Citizen participation
Does Citizen Participation Work?
Monday, January 30th, 2012 - 17:31
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 - 10:19
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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Engaging Citizens vs. Streamlining Bureaucracy
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 - 8:37
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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Is Open Government Dead?
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 - 10:37
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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Customer Service Guidance from OMB
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 - 8:56
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 09:52
Six weeks ago, President Obama signed an executive order, “Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service,” directing agencies to develop customer service plans by the end of October. The Office of Management and Budget finally released its guidance to agencies on how to prepare those plans.
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Gumby Goes to the White House
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 - 15:02
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 14:57
Over the years, presidents have directed agencies to streamline their administrative requirements and work together on behalf of citizens. The last major effort was in the Clinton Administration, which met with mixed success. President Obama has declared he will try again: “I believe that working together, State, local, and tribal governments and Federal agencies can distinguish between rules and requi
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Inducement Prizes, Contests, and Challenge Awards
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 - 9:41
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 09:36
Why? Because prizes are effective. Under the right circumstances, they can be more effective than traditional investments in research and development.
Lowery says: “After falling out of favor for decades, such high-publicity, fat-reward contest came into vogue again in the aughts in the wake of the 1996 Ansari X Prize for advances in commercial spaceflight” which Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne won in 2004.
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Expert Net: Trolling for New Ideas
Thursday, December 30th, 2010 - 16:10
Thursday, December 30, 2010 - 16:06
Earlier this month, the White House announced that it is seeking public input on “a design concept for a government-wide software tool and process to elicit expert public participation.” The announcement says that the government is looking to expand its traditional approaches of getting citizen input – announcements in the Federal Register and the use of Advisory Committees –
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I think leveraging the crowdsourcing tool used by NASA would be a good way to go.
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Rip Van Winkel Awakens: Does He Look Like Nicholas Cage?
Thursday, December 16th, 2010 - 10:24
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 10:19
We were here for the reawakening of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. and it felt like a scene out of “National Treasure.” In fact, I keep looking around for Nicholas Cage. Here I was, at a reception in the Great Hall of the National Archives, able to look at the originals of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights without standing in a line and having to continually shuffle forward under the mutterings of “please keep moving” by impatient guards.
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Improving Customer Service
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 - 8:24
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 08:20
In the 1990s, the Clinton-Gore Reinventing Government effort thought the answer was “yes.” President Clinton issued a customer service executive order in 1993 followed up in 1995 with a memo to institutionalize the initiative.
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