Participation
Many governments, at every tier, are now trying to find ways of engaging the public in shaping what they do, not just through elections every few years. These methods are still being experimented with, and are as much about creating a culture of openness to ideas as they are about generating ideas themselves.
Participatory planning
Participatory planning or ‘Planning for Real’, and other methods for involving the public in the design of solutions mainly pioneered around urban design and architecture by...
Read moreProcesses for involving children
Processes for involving children in generating innovations, decision-making, urban design, planning and school management. One example is the work of Children’s Express in feeding children’s views...
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Governments around the world are now developing platforms to engage citizens. In New Zealand, the government have been experimenting by using a wiki to draft police legislation. The...
Read moreLarge scale government-led exercises
Large scale government-led exercises to involve the public in generating ideas and possibilities, such as the Australia 2020 process initiated by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in...
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Methods for participation, idea generation and deliberation
Methods for participation, idea generation and deliberation such as the deliberative polling techniques developed by James Fishkin at the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University....
Read moreParliamentary structures to develop citizen ideas
Parliamentary structures to develop citizen ideas, like Korea’s Tribunis Plebis, a committee of senior legislators committed to putting citizen ideas into legislation....
Read moreCitizen Petitions
Citizen Petitions and other online platforms for capturing citizens’ ideas on a range of matters including public service improvement. One example in the UK is the...
Read moreCitizen juries
Citizen juries, pioneered by the Jefferson Center in the US, bring a random selection of citizens together to assess the pros and cons of contested policy...
Read moreCitizen's panels
Citizen’s panels are similar to Citizens Juries but tend to involve more people – usually between 500 and 3,000 people. Participants are usually recruited by random...
Read moreLegislative theatre
Legislative theatre is similar to Forum Theatre, but instead of acting out a scene where someone is being oppressed, the subject of the performance is a...
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