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*[http://dowire.org/ Democracies Online], builds online public space in the heart of real democracy and community. "Our mission is to harness the power of online tools to support participation in public life, strengthen communities, and build democracy." | |||
*[http://www.open311.org/ Open311], collaborative model and open standard for civic issue tracking | *[http://www.open311.org/ Open311], collaborative model and open standard for civic issue tracking | ||
*[http://www.openingparliament.org/ OpeningParliament.org], forum intended to help connect the world's civic organizations engaged in monitoring, supporting and opening up their countries' parliaments and legislative institutions. | *[http://www.openingparliament.org/ OpeningParliament.org], forum intended to help connect the world's civic organizations engaged in monitoring, supporting and opening up their countries' parliaments and legislative institutions. |
Revision as of 07:33, 29 June 2015
Template:CInews Community involvement is used here as a term similar to Participatory democracy W, and more recent terms such as Open source governance W.
What communities can do
- create or develop Location, projects or networks pages, eg 'Sustainable (Your town)', in this wiki
- Participatory carbon budgeting
- Participatory budgeting
- Participatory or citizen journalism
- Street parties
- Local quality of life conferences
- Community involvement weeks
- Youth Fora
- promote and practice Open source conference design
- advocate Open involvement
Campaigns
Why it matters
Community involvement is about people and communities being able to play a full part in decision-making, for example local decision-making, and so influence the decisions which affect their lives. It is also about community empowerment, for example through access to appropriate information and adivce.
Proper community involvement is not tokenistic. Instead it is on-going, valued, meaningful, provides extensive opportunity and is genuinely and extensively influential.
Proper community involvement is not about allowing mere comment on decisions that have already largely been taken. Instead it begins at the design stage, the very beginning of any project or programme.
Proper community involvement does not include measures of success being foisted upon the community, or worse still simply being ignored. Instead it gives a primary role to the community in judging how successful a project or programme has been.
Resources
Citizens data initiative
Maps
Technology for transparency network
Quotes
There resides in all populations a "mass of sense lying in a dormant state - which good government should quietly harness." Tom Paine [1]
Video
More video: Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web, video on TED.com
See also
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
- Arts, sport and culture
- Communities online
- Community and voluntary action
- Localism
- Rural sustainability
- Urban sustainability
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Participatory democracy, Open-source governance, .green
External links
- Democracies Online, builds online public space in the heart of real democracy and community. "Our mission is to harness the power of online tools to support participation in public life, strengthen communities, and build democracy."
- Open311, collaborative model and open standard for civic issue tracking
- OpeningParliament.org, forum intended to help connect the world's civic organizations engaged in monitoring, supporting and opening up their countries' parliaments and legislative institutions.
- Open Government Initiative
References
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- ↑ Guardian review of Hilary Wainwright’s book Reclaim the State: Adventures in Popular Democracy, July 2003