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- Latest post made by laurence.millar at Jul 14 12:43 NZST
These are ground breaking: 16 recommendations created by the community at http://mixedink.com/opengov/ 21st Century Right to Know Recommendations: Defining Transparency Citizen Participation in Government Decision-Making: Creating New Opportunities to Engage Inter-Governmental and Intra-Governmental Collaboration Transparency Governance: Institutionalizing Transparency Strengthening Civic Participation: Training People to Participate Prizes: Creating Incentives for Public-Private Partnerships Open Government Operations: Strategies for More Open Government New Technologies and Participation: Enabling Participation with New Media Alternative and Online Dispute Resolution Data Transparency via Data.gov: Putting More Data Online Enhancing Online Citizen Participation through Policy Other Collaboration Recommendations Access to Information: Improving Access to Government Data Improving Online Public Participation in Agency Rulemaking/E-Rulemaking Other Transparency Recommendations Other Participation Recommendations Released under Creative Commoms
On 12/07/2009, at 8:48 PM, <email obscured> wrote: > These are ground breaking: 16 recommendations created by the > community at http://mixedink.com/opengov/ Some of these are great. I particularly like the process they went through to find them; the mixedink.com process is very cool: gather suggestions, cluster them into "these are variations on the same theme", vote to find the best expression of the theme. It lacks the "ok, now someone coherently rewrite to encompass all these ideas" pass that Wikipedia entries often have. Because of this, many of the final suggestions are mundane ... far from the best summation of action in the particular field, in my opinion. For all that, it's a hell of a lot better than a straightforward poll.
Yes, it does bear some resemblance to a camel (horse by designed committee). I
think they may find the same in Australia with the Public Sphere wiki.
the challenge of community developed content that has an internal cohesion and
consistency. It's rather like taking the material from whiteboard sessions and
using it to build content.
Every editor makes different choices and has a different style, and every
editorial decision moves the final product one step further from the community
created content.
So the challenge for policy makers is where on that continuum to choose the
final resting point