I found this video by the Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs today and wanted to share it. It’s full of great practical advice. TRANSCRIPT: Web accessibility – What does it all mean? Misconception: Web accessibility is about disability. No, Web accessibility is about universality. It’s about making something that can [...]
A study of e-participation enterprises by the Seoul Metropolitan Government “indicates that satisfaction with the user-friendliness of e-participation applications directly and positively affects participants’ social learning and e-participants’ assessment of government transparency.” Soonhee Kim, Professor of Public Administration at Syracuse University and Jooho Lee, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Idaho have [...]
Because community engagement is just about as far from a static enterprise as one can imagine, we wanted to come up with a visual tool to represent that dynamism and make it easier for our clients to pick the right feedback tools for the job at hand.
After four and half years of experience working with some 150 clients on well over 500 online consultations the Bang the Table team has put our collective heads together to create an Online Consultation Guide Book. While targeted specifically at users of our online engagement platform, EngagementHQ, the book is overflowing with good practice lessons [...]
When carrying out a community consultation process of any kind, whether it is online or offline, it is important to be able to capture and analyse community feedback and participation. This data is important in determining a number of things, including the reach and depth of your engagement, the success of your engagement process against [...]
A thoughtful online and offline engagement strategy is helping Port Macquarie-Hastings Council rekindle its community’s trust. “We’ve never had a financial conversation like this before,” notes Communications Manager Lyndal Harper on Council’s “Budget Priorities” engagement strategy. “The community support we’ve had for it has been reflected in the comments arriving on our online forum; such [...]
We’ve uploaded four participatory budgeting case studies to our blog. Each is presents a contemporary and comprehensive approach to PB that is being undertaken in the Western World. North America’s First Municipal Participatory Budgeting Scheme Kicks Off Chicago’s 49th Ward In 2009, residents of the diverse 49th Ward of Chicago collaborated to determine how best [...]
We’ve uploaded four participatory budgeting case studies to our blog. Each is presents a contemporary and comprehensive approach to PB being undertaken in the Western World. Participatory Budgeting in Public Housing Delivers Trust, Empowerment and New Stoves! Toronto Community Housing: Tenant Participation System Since 2001, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) has used a participatory [...]
We’ve uploaded four participatory budgeting case studies to our blog. Each presents a contemporary and comprehensive approach to PB being undertaken in the Western World. Hard to Reach Kids Leap and Learn in Participatory Budget Scheme The Children’s Fund, Newcastle In 2008, the UK’s Newcastle City Council launched a participatory budgeting process in which 450 [...]
We’ve uploaded four participatory budgeting case studies to our blog. Each presents a contemporary and comprehensive approach to PB being undertaken in the Western World. Hamburg Citizens Carve a Piece of Online PB Pie Hamburg’s Participatory Budgeting Scheme In Hamburg, participatory budgeting was introduced in 2006 by city politician Rüdiger Kruse, Christian Democratic Party spokesman [...]