Presentation on issues to examine when trying to select an online public participation platform for a community project. Overviews characteristics of different platforms. For more information check out wiseeconomy.com and onlinepublicengagementemporium.com. Given to NCDD.org
This document discusses Group Partners and their approach to solving complex 21st century problems through collaboration and innovation. They involve multiple teams in discussions to discover, develop, decide on and deploy solutions. They use structured visualization and logic models to change how businesses think and work, and provide 21st century tools to convey complex information to stakeholders.
This document discusses a solution called BusyFlow that uses popular tools like Google Calendar to help people work together more productively. It proposes a business model of creating a platform for productivity apps, noting that the market is ready for such solutions. The document requests advice on making business connections, ideas for marketing, and help improving the user experience.
Kate Fitzpatrick, Senior Strategist, e3 and Joshua Leigh, Amnesty International both presented at Experiencing Charity: The Future of Giving, an e3 event looking at the future of the third sector. In these presentations we looked at trends, VR, 360, Labs, Innovation and many other ways charities are exploring immersive experiences.
Public participation experience in Central Asia (Ulzhan Kanzhigalina) - Power...Iwl Pcu
OBJECTIVES: Support and promote community initiatives in participatory problem solving.
Create local entities that can sustainably support, promote community development initiatives and protect citizens' interests.
The document discusses the role of social media in public participation. It defines key terms like civic engagement, public participation, and social media. It explores opportunities and challenges of using online tools for participation, providing examples like expanding reach but also the digital divide. The document outlines principles for quality online participation like using a process like the IAP2 framework and ensuring the right mix of people, process and technology. It concludes that social media can broaden and deepen civic engagement when objectives, audience and resources are considered.
This document discusses Group Partners and their approach to solving complex 21st century problems through collaboration and innovation. They involve multiple teams in discussions to discover, develop, decide on and deploy solutions. They use structured visualization and logic models to change how businesses think and work, and provide 21st century tools to convey complex information to stakeholders.
This document discusses a solution called BusyFlow that uses popular tools like Google Calendar to help people work together more productively. It proposes a business model of creating a platform for productivity apps, noting that the market is ready for such solutions. The document requests advice on making business connections, ideas for marketing, and help improving the user experience.
Kate Fitzpatrick, Senior Strategist, e3 and Joshua Leigh, Amnesty International both presented at Experiencing Charity: The Future of Giving, an e3 event looking at the future of the third sector. In these presentations we looked at trends, VR, 360, Labs, Innovation and many other ways charities are exploring immersive experiences.
Public participation experience in Central Asia (Ulzhan Kanzhigalina) - Power...Iwl Pcu
OBJECTIVES: Support and promote community initiatives in participatory problem solving.
Create local entities that can sustainably support, promote community development initiatives and protect citizens' interests.
The document discusses the role of social media in public participation. It defines key terms like civic engagement, public participation, and social media. It explores opportunities and challenges of using online tools for participation, providing examples like expanding reach but also the digital divide. The document outlines principles for quality online participation like using a process like the IAP2 framework and ensuring the right mix of people, process and technology. It concludes that social media can broaden and deepen civic engagement when objectives, audience and resources are considered.
Methodology of participation in public spacesXavier Úcar
This document discusses methodology for participation in public spaces. It describes how participatory research was conducted in the Carmel neighborhood of Barcelona to understand how different groups use and feel about public spaces. Surveys were conducted with youth, adults, and elderly to create maps of public space functions, emotions, and visions. The participatory research team included representatives from the local government, university, and community to understand public space usage and gather proposals for improvement.
The document discusses good practices in public participation for water governance. It outlines modes of participation including multistakeholder platforms that bring together stakeholders to share knowledge, generate options, and inform decisions. Case studies from Tanzania, Uganda, and Guatemala demonstrate engaging stakeholders from top-down and bottom-up through tools like water user groups and watershed planning. Effective governance requires enabling policies, social learning institutions, decentralized decision-making, coordination across scales, and leadership to build adaptive capacity through participation.
A presentation on obstacles to effective public participation in strategic environmental decision making in the countries of the European Union. By Michael Ewing, Coordinator of the Environmental Pillar. Ireland, October 2012
Public Participation and Conflict Resolution in Public Planning: Practice in ...nowedrogirozwojupl
The document discusses public participation and conflict resolution in public planning practices in Austria. It provides an overview of the Austrian Society for Environment and Technology (Oegut), which promotes public participation. It then describes principles of public participation, including that it should be implemented early to prevent conflicts and reach acceptance for projects. The document also discusses benefits and success factors for public participation. It provides case studies of participation processes for an expressway project and for expansion of Vienna International Airport.
Public participatory process in response to landgrabbing cases: The Philippin...PNFSP
This document outlines the context of land use and ownership in the Philippines and issues of land grabbing. It notes that agricultural lands in the Philippines have decreased by over 1 million hectares in the past 21 years due to conversions. It discusses how government laws and programs, such as loopholes in CARP and provisions allowing land reclassification, exemptions from coverage, and non-land transfer schemes, have paved the way for widespread land conversions and grabbing. Specific cases of large landholdings and impacts on farmers are also summarized.
Public participation refers to involving stakeholders like citizens, community groups, and businesses in decision-making processes that affect them. This can occur at various levels from developing policies and strategies to planning projects. There are different stages of participation ranging from simply informing the public to allowing them to directly influence decisions. Successful participation requires clarifying goals, inviting all affected parties, allocating sufficient time and resources, and making sure participation can actually impact outcomes. Public participation is important for achieving sustainable development and building cooperation between governments and communities.
Public participation in decision making has evolved over time from Karl Mannheim's initial emphasis on its importance in the 1940s. Advocacy planning involves long, medium, and short term strategies to influence policy and public opinion. In India, constitutional amendments in the 1990s established three-tier rural and urban local self governments to empower communities and ensure participation in planning and development. Current scenarios involve setting up ward committees, strengthening panchayati raj institutions, and some states enacting community participation laws to involve citizens in decision making. Public participation is an important democratic principle that improves decisions, increases support, and empowers communities.
This document summarizes the registration and establishment of the "HR Association" Human Resources Management Non-Governmental Organization in Armenia.
The key details are:
1. The organization was registered on May 19, 2010 with registration number 211.171.05370 and certificate number 030 088432.
2. The organization's goals are to establish a professional HR community in Armenia, introduce modern HR practices, and promote the development of an efficient HR system through harmonizing international and national practices.
3. The organization will implement various projects related to HR such as conferences, training, competitions, and research to achieve its goals.
4. The organization has a defined governance structure including a General
How to lead in a VUCA world? Most companies have been designed for a paradigm before the big shift. This requires complex transformation in order to anticipate on constant change. In the meanwhile, what can we as individuals do to accelerate change? How do we learn to lead pull programs when we have been in traditional management for years? This talk covers the context of pull, the impact for organisations and what you can do about it.
21 ways to break assumptions in the event-conference-businessCyriel Kortleven
The document outlines 21 ways to break assumptions in the event planning business. Some key ideas include having multiple simultaneous speakers, non-traditional event locations like museums or parks, crowdsourcing aspects like the agenda or speaker selection, incorporating more interactive elements beyond presentations, and using technology to enable remote or multi-location events. The overall message is to challenge conventions and continuously evolve events to create novel experiences for participants.
The skills we need to navigate the digital worldStrategyWorks
The document discusses the skills needed to navigate the digital world. It highlights how education systems need to adapt curricula and classrooms for 21st century learners. Disruptive technologies like social media and algorithms personalize information, creating echo chambers. This limits exposure to opposing views. The document advocates for developing digital literacies like critical thinking, participation, cooperation and "crap detection" to empower citizens in navigating the digital landscape. It argues digital literacies must be introduced in classrooms, workplaces and homes.
Bring CSR activities to another level - HACKATHONSChallengeRocket
ChallengeRocket recently released the ebook focused on connecting hackathons (programming events) with sustainable development (CSR) for organizations active in all sectors. Case studies in publication show how innovative and socially responsible may be companies if they open the door for stakeholders to engage them in joint creation of ideas and solutions. Hackathon as a form of gaining unconventional ideas and reaching out to talented professionals is an important part of the modern corporate social responsibility strategy.
Content Partner of our ebook is Responsible Business Forum and Honorary Patronage - UN Information Center in Warsaw.
Here are some key points innovators highlighted about interacting with trendscouts:
- Create an environment of trust. Innovators are skeptical about sharing their ideas without proper protections.
- Clearly communicate your values upfront. Make collaboration, openness, sharing and trust central to how you operate.
- Move from an "egosystem" mindset to an "ecosystem" mindset. The focus should be on mutually beneficial relationships and community building rather than just your own goals.
- Respect intellectual property rights. Ensure innovators feel confident their ideas will be properly protected and promoted, not exploited.
- Consider joining a local ICT association. This can help address issues professionally and curb potential problems like
Learn the art of designing perfect event website. Make use of these essential design elements to create a visually appealing event website. Let's get started!
Social Media for the Equipment Finance CompanySuzanne Henry
A presentation on how an equipment finance and leasing company may use social media and social networking for marketing and communications purposes. Findings from original grant research conducted in summer 2010 are included.
Salyer, stephen media entrepreneurship presentation to salzburg academySalzburg Global Seminar
This document provides an overview of media entrepreneurship and financing for digital media projects. It discusses the differences between social entrepreneurship and business entrepreneurship, highlighting that social entrepreneurs prioritize social value over profits while business entrepreneurs prioritize economic returns. Examples are provided of successful media organizations, including MinnPost and m-Pedigree Network, that utilize diverse revenue sources like subscriptions, grants, advertising, and partnerships. Key elements of developing an effective elevator pitch or business plan are outlined, focusing on clearly identifying needs, solutions, metrics, implementation strategies, risks, returns, and securing necessary investment.
This report highlights case studies in which people in developing countries have benefitted from innovative solutions following support from UK Research and Innovation.
Find out more: https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/new-report-and-guide-published-for-gcrf-demonstrate-impact-programme
The document proposes a digital platform called The Repository to help researchers share their ongoing projects and progress to gain support and funding. It discusses problems with current systems leaving researchers disconnected from intentions/motivations. The Repository aims to demystify technology research by allowing researchers to share process/progress and gain funding, while enthusiasts can view and support projects. It provides validation from the success of sites like GitHub, Patreon and Kickstarter and outlines the market size and business model.
Optimize Customer Experiences with Design ThinkingJared Hill
If you are looking to generate engaging digital experiences but are unsure where to begin, leveraging the knowledge within your organization is a good starting point. However, information is typically dispersed across the company in silos. Different business units often have their own vernacular. Design thinking provides a common language. It’s a customer-centric approach to problem solving that is both creative and practical.
Industry leaders have been using design thinking methodology to work with cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams to create innovative customer journeys. Learn how in our recorded webinar, Optimize Customer Experiences with Design Thinking.
You will learn:
• Why leverage design thinking
• How to successfully lead a remote workshop
• How to document winning customer journeys
• How to map desired experiences in Signavio for builders
Methodology of participation in public spacesXavier Úcar
This document discusses methodology for participation in public spaces. It describes how participatory research was conducted in the Carmel neighborhood of Barcelona to understand how different groups use and feel about public spaces. Surveys were conducted with youth, adults, and elderly to create maps of public space functions, emotions, and visions. The participatory research team included representatives from the local government, university, and community to understand public space usage and gather proposals for improvement.
The document discusses good practices in public participation for water governance. It outlines modes of participation including multistakeholder platforms that bring together stakeholders to share knowledge, generate options, and inform decisions. Case studies from Tanzania, Uganda, and Guatemala demonstrate engaging stakeholders from top-down and bottom-up through tools like water user groups and watershed planning. Effective governance requires enabling policies, social learning institutions, decentralized decision-making, coordination across scales, and leadership to build adaptive capacity through participation.
A presentation on obstacles to effective public participation in strategic environmental decision making in the countries of the European Union. By Michael Ewing, Coordinator of the Environmental Pillar. Ireland, October 2012
Public Participation and Conflict Resolution in Public Planning: Practice in ...nowedrogirozwojupl
The document discusses public participation and conflict resolution in public planning practices in Austria. It provides an overview of the Austrian Society for Environment and Technology (Oegut), which promotes public participation. It then describes principles of public participation, including that it should be implemented early to prevent conflicts and reach acceptance for projects. The document also discusses benefits and success factors for public participation. It provides case studies of participation processes for an expressway project and for expansion of Vienna International Airport.
Public participatory process in response to landgrabbing cases: The Philippin...PNFSP
This document outlines the context of land use and ownership in the Philippines and issues of land grabbing. It notes that agricultural lands in the Philippines have decreased by over 1 million hectares in the past 21 years due to conversions. It discusses how government laws and programs, such as loopholes in CARP and provisions allowing land reclassification, exemptions from coverage, and non-land transfer schemes, have paved the way for widespread land conversions and grabbing. Specific cases of large landholdings and impacts on farmers are also summarized.
Public participation refers to involving stakeholders like citizens, community groups, and businesses in decision-making processes that affect them. This can occur at various levels from developing policies and strategies to planning projects. There are different stages of participation ranging from simply informing the public to allowing them to directly influence decisions. Successful participation requires clarifying goals, inviting all affected parties, allocating sufficient time and resources, and making sure participation can actually impact outcomes. Public participation is important for achieving sustainable development and building cooperation between governments and communities.
Public participation in decision making has evolved over time from Karl Mannheim's initial emphasis on its importance in the 1940s. Advocacy planning involves long, medium, and short term strategies to influence policy and public opinion. In India, constitutional amendments in the 1990s established three-tier rural and urban local self governments to empower communities and ensure participation in planning and development. Current scenarios involve setting up ward committees, strengthening panchayati raj institutions, and some states enacting community participation laws to involve citizens in decision making. Public participation is an important democratic principle that improves decisions, increases support, and empowers communities.
This document summarizes the registration and establishment of the "HR Association" Human Resources Management Non-Governmental Organization in Armenia.
The key details are:
1. The organization was registered on May 19, 2010 with registration number 211.171.05370 and certificate number 030 088432.
2. The organization's goals are to establish a professional HR community in Armenia, introduce modern HR practices, and promote the development of an efficient HR system through harmonizing international and national practices.
3. The organization will implement various projects related to HR such as conferences, training, competitions, and research to achieve its goals.
4. The organization has a defined governance structure including a General
How to lead in a VUCA world? Most companies have been designed for a paradigm before the big shift. This requires complex transformation in order to anticipate on constant change. In the meanwhile, what can we as individuals do to accelerate change? How do we learn to lead pull programs when we have been in traditional management for years? This talk covers the context of pull, the impact for organisations and what you can do about it.
21 ways to break assumptions in the event-conference-businessCyriel Kortleven
The document outlines 21 ways to break assumptions in the event planning business. Some key ideas include having multiple simultaneous speakers, non-traditional event locations like museums or parks, crowdsourcing aspects like the agenda or speaker selection, incorporating more interactive elements beyond presentations, and using technology to enable remote or multi-location events. The overall message is to challenge conventions and continuously evolve events to create novel experiences for participants.
The skills we need to navigate the digital worldStrategyWorks
The document discusses the skills needed to navigate the digital world. It highlights how education systems need to adapt curricula and classrooms for 21st century learners. Disruptive technologies like social media and algorithms personalize information, creating echo chambers. This limits exposure to opposing views. The document advocates for developing digital literacies like critical thinking, participation, cooperation and "crap detection" to empower citizens in navigating the digital landscape. It argues digital literacies must be introduced in classrooms, workplaces and homes.
Bring CSR activities to another level - HACKATHONSChallengeRocket
ChallengeRocket recently released the ebook focused on connecting hackathons (programming events) with sustainable development (CSR) for organizations active in all sectors. Case studies in publication show how innovative and socially responsible may be companies if they open the door for stakeholders to engage them in joint creation of ideas and solutions. Hackathon as a form of gaining unconventional ideas and reaching out to talented professionals is an important part of the modern corporate social responsibility strategy.
Content Partner of our ebook is Responsible Business Forum and Honorary Patronage - UN Information Center in Warsaw.
Here are some key points innovators highlighted about interacting with trendscouts:
- Create an environment of trust. Innovators are skeptical about sharing their ideas without proper protections.
- Clearly communicate your values upfront. Make collaboration, openness, sharing and trust central to how you operate.
- Move from an "egosystem" mindset to an "ecosystem" mindset. The focus should be on mutually beneficial relationships and community building rather than just your own goals.
- Respect intellectual property rights. Ensure innovators feel confident their ideas will be properly protected and promoted, not exploited.
- Consider joining a local ICT association. This can help address issues professionally and curb potential problems like
Learn the art of designing perfect event website. Make use of these essential design elements to create a visually appealing event website. Let's get started!
Social Media for the Equipment Finance CompanySuzanne Henry
A presentation on how an equipment finance and leasing company may use social media and social networking for marketing and communications purposes. Findings from original grant research conducted in summer 2010 are included.
Salyer, stephen media entrepreneurship presentation to salzburg academySalzburg Global Seminar
This document provides an overview of media entrepreneurship and financing for digital media projects. It discusses the differences between social entrepreneurship and business entrepreneurship, highlighting that social entrepreneurs prioritize social value over profits while business entrepreneurs prioritize economic returns. Examples are provided of successful media organizations, including MinnPost and m-Pedigree Network, that utilize diverse revenue sources like subscriptions, grants, advertising, and partnerships. Key elements of developing an effective elevator pitch or business plan are outlined, focusing on clearly identifying needs, solutions, metrics, implementation strategies, risks, returns, and securing necessary investment.
This report highlights case studies in which people in developing countries have benefitted from innovative solutions following support from UK Research and Innovation.
Find out more: https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/new-report-and-guide-published-for-gcrf-demonstrate-impact-programme
The document proposes a digital platform called The Repository to help researchers share their ongoing projects and progress to gain support and funding. It discusses problems with current systems leaving researchers disconnected from intentions/motivations. The Repository aims to demystify technology research by allowing researchers to share process/progress and gain funding, while enthusiasts can view and support projects. It provides validation from the success of sites like GitHub, Patreon and Kickstarter and outlines the market size and business model.
Optimize Customer Experiences with Design ThinkingJared Hill
If you are looking to generate engaging digital experiences but are unsure where to begin, leveraging the knowledge within your organization is a good starting point. However, information is typically dispersed across the company in silos. Different business units often have their own vernacular. Design thinking provides a common language. It’s a customer-centric approach to problem solving that is both creative and practical.
Industry leaders have been using design thinking methodology to work with cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams to create innovative customer journeys. Learn how in our recorded webinar, Optimize Customer Experiences with Design Thinking.
You will learn:
• Why leverage design thinking
• How to successfully lead a remote workshop
• How to document winning customer journeys
• How to map desired experiences in Signavio for builders
If you are looking to generate engaging digital experiences but are unsure where to begin, leveraging the knowledge within your organization is a good starting point. However, information is typically dispersed across the company in silos. Different business units often have their own vernacular. Design thinking provides a common language. It’s a customer-centric approach to problem solving that is both creative and practical.
Industry leaders have been using design thinking methodology to work with cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams to create innovative customer journeys. Learn how in our recorded webinar, Optimize Customer Experiences with Design Thinking.
You will learn:
• Why leverage design thinking
• How to successfully lead a remote workshop
• How to document winning customer journeys
• How to map desired experiences in Signavio for builders
The presentation is for the teacher and the student to learn and grow with their projects applying systematic thinking along with methodologies that foster such thinking. I used emerging business technology applications to serve as examples to highlight the extensive preparation that goes along to achieve any successful product. I just focused on the influence of the smart phone, social, mobile, cloud convergence with a few examples from education, daily digital routines and healthcare.
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يوم الإثنين 02 يناير 2023
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This document summarizes the key points from a session on the ideation phase of a design challenge focused on Covid-19. It outlines the main activities of the ideation phase, including developing value propositions with insight statements and "How Might We" questions, solution brainstorming, creating a user journey map, developing a communication strategy, and sketching and prototyping ideas. It also lists deliverables for each activity and provides example resources and collaboration tools.
The Matchbox is an accelerator program that provides strategic and material support to advocacy organizations working at the intersection of technology and transparency. It offers idea refinement, project planning, matching with external experts, and fundraising support. The Matchbox focuses on Latin America and Southern Africa and emphasizes a thoughtful process for technology projects that includes assessing assumptions, exploring existing solutions, developing a pilot plan, user testing, and iterative development. It aims to strengthen projects through preparation, an emphasis on local needs over international support, and consideration of both human and technical perspectives.
Level-U digital elearning Asia March 2018Jodie Collins
This document provides an overview of the online learning platform Level-U. It was created to provide ongoing access to digital skills training for companies in Asia. Key points:
- Level-U offers micro-lessons, courses in digital marketing/leadership, and tailored content for clients.
- It uses a blended learning model of online and in-person training to help professionals continuously learn.
- The platform aims to address gaps in current education and the lack of Asia-specific and practical digital skills training for professionals.
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This document is a guide for conducting public meetings that improve the community by crowdsourcing wisdom from attendees. The guide offers tips for public meetings that attendees will find valuable rather than regret attending. It aims to help meetings tap into the collective intelligence of the community through participation and discussion.
This document discusses effective ways for communities to support small businesses through a "feeding" role rather than a leadership role. It argues that small businesses need connections, space, and fair rules rather than top-down programs. Specific feeding strategies include convening events, providing shared work/meeting spaces, clearly communicating regulations, and connecting businesses to media opportunities. The document outlines how to identify when a community may need to take a leadership role, such as when businesses are struggling. It provides scenarios to illustrate how communities can support small businesses and entrepreneurs by feeding existing demand and enabling new opportunities through networking and sharing resources.
This is one of the versions of the talk/workshop about building small business ecosystems in communities that I have done in Spring 2015. The talk focuses on methods for helping small businesses learn and grow and connect to each other to increase the overall health and resilience of a local economy.
These are the slides from my keynote session at RevitalizeWA, held in lovely Bellingham, Washington on May 7, 2015. We talked about economic revitalization, small businesses and why the emerging economy needs old places. You can find the audio of the presentation at soundcloud.com/wiseeconomy.
This presentation was a keynote/training given to the Pueblo Urban Renewal Authority in 2011. It outlines the fundamental paradigm shift that underlies the Wise Economy Approach. And it's gotten more concise since then, thankfully. Phew.
What Local Governments Can Actually Do to Help Small Businesses July 2014Della Rucker, AICP, CEcD
This slide deck comes from a presentation that I gave on behalf of Lorman Education in July 2014. The session focused on helping government and nonprofit professionals understand some of the issues that create barriers to communication between businesses and administrators, and it examined some concrete ways in which governments and community nonprofits can directly improve their local small business environment.
To learn more about the Wise Economy approach to economic revitalization and local economy growth, check out wiseeconomy.com. The webinar is still available for purchase through Lorman; check out http://www.lorman.com/archive/392921 for options.
This presentation was given as part of OEDA's Basic Economic Development Training in March, 2014. The text underneath the slide should give you an explanation of what I said on each slide. Note that the text underneath tries to differentiate between what I thought students needed to be aware of in order to succeed on the professional exam for the CEcD certification, and what I thought needed to happen in real life. So it's a little schitzophrenic. Sorry. To learn more about how I actually think this stuff should be done, check out wiseeconomy.com
These slides were part of an Ignite session (6 minutes) that I gave at the International Economic Development Association (IEDC) conference in Irvine, California in February 2014. It was a riff off of a chapter in The Local Economy Revolution: What's Changed and How You Can Help. For more information, including video of this presentation, go to wiseeconomy.com. Learn more about the book at LocalEconomyRevolutionBook.com.
Slides from a keynote given at the Michigan Economic Development Association Conference, August 2014. Uses small objects to demonstrate the "sea change" - type changes outlined in the book, The Local Economy Revolution: What's changed and How You Can Help. Check out wiseeconomy.com and LocalEconomyRevolutionBook.com for more information. Video of speech will be posted eventually
The Antyodaya Saral Haryana Portal is a pioneering initiative by the Government of Haryana aimed at providing citizens with seamless access to a wide range of government services
About Potato, The scientific name of the plant is Solanum tuberosum (L).Christina Parmionova
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile
Synopsis (short abstract) In December 2023, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 30 May as the International Day of Potato.
Contributi dei parlamentari del PD - Contributi L. 3/2019Partito democratico
DI SEGUITO SONO PUBBLICATI, AI SENSI DELL'ART. 11 DELLA LEGGE N. 3/2019, GLI IMPORTI RICEVUTI DALL'ENTRATA IN VIGORE DELLA SUDDETTA NORMA (31/01/2019) E FINO AL MESE SOLARE ANTECEDENTE QUELLO DELLA PUBBLICAZIONE SUL PRESENTE SITO
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa. Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
Donate to charity during this holiday seasonSERUDS INDIA
For people who have money and are philanthropic, there are infinite opportunities to gift a needy person or child a Merry Christmas. Even if you are living on a shoestring budget, you will be surprised at how much you can do.
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Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
This report explores the significance of border towns and spaces for strengthening responses to young people on the move. In particular it explores the linkages of young people to local service centres with the aim of further developing service, protection, and support strategies for migrant children in border areas across the region. The report is based on a small-scale fieldwork study in the border towns of Chipata and Katete in Zambia conducted in July 2023. Border towns and spaces provide a rich source of information about issues related to the informal or irregular movement of young people across borders, including smuggling and trafficking. They can help build a picture of the nature and scope of the type of movement young migrants undertake and also the forms of protection available to them. Border towns and spaces also provide a lens through which we can better understand the vulnerabilities of young people on the move and, critically, the strategies they use to navigate challenges and access support.
The findings in this report highlight some of the key factors shaping the experiences and vulnerabilities of young people on the move – particularly their proximity to border spaces and how this affects the risks that they face. The report describes strategies that young people on the move employ to remain below the radar of visibility to state and non-state actors due to fear of arrest, detention, and deportation while also trying to keep themselves safe and access support in border towns. These strategies of (in)visibility provide a way to protect themselves yet at the same time also heighten some of the risks young people face as their vulnerabilities are not always recognised by those who could offer support.
In this report we show that the realities and challenges of life and migration in this region and in Zambia need to be better understood for support to be strengthened and tuned to meet the specific needs of young people on the move. This includes understanding the role of state and non-state stakeholders, the impact of laws and policies and, critically, the experiences of the young people themselves. We provide recommendations for immediate action, recommendations for programming to support young people on the move in the two towns that would reduce risk for young people in this area, and recommendations for longer term policy advocacy.
Food safety, prepare for the unexpected - So what can be done in order to be ready to address food safety, food Consumers, food producers and manufacturers, food transporters, food businesses, food retailers can ...
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
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A Guide to AI for Smarter Nonprofits - Dr. Cori Faklaris, UNC CharlotteCori Faklaris
Working with data is a challenge for many organizations. Nonprofits in particular may need to collect and analyze sensitive, incomplete, and/or biased historical data about people. In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris of UNC Charlotte provides an overview of current AI capabilities and weaknesses to consider when integrating current AI technologies into the data workflow. The talk is organized around three takeaways: (1) For better or sometimes worse, AI provides you with “infinite interns.” (2) Give people permission & guardrails to learn what works with these “interns” and what doesn’t. (3) Create a roadmap for adding in more AI to assist nonprofit work, along with strategies for bias mitigation.
A Guide to AI for Smarter Nonprofits - Dr. Cori Faklaris, UNC Charlotte
Selecting online public participation tools 08 26 14
1. NCDD Tech Tuesdays
August 26, 2014
Online Public Engagement
Tools and Platforms:
the whirlwind tour
The Wise
Economy
Workshop
Della G. Rucker, AICP, CEcD
www.wiseeconomy.com
www.OnlinePublicEngagementEmporium.wordpress.com
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o The state of the industry
(for the next 5 minutes)
o What to look for in a public
participation web-based
platform
o Let’s Talk
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Will the process
allow you to pull
the public into the
process in a
meaningful way?
Will the tool help
set priorities and
identify areas of
consensus?
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How easy will it be for your public to use it?
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How easy does the tool make it to spread the word?
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How much control
will you have over
the content?
How much control
can you manage?
How much do you
want to deal with
it?
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How much
control will you
have over who
is participating?
How much will
you know about
who is
participating?
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What kind
of data
analysis
capability
will you
have?
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How will
people with
disabilities or
who speak
other
languages be
able to
participate?
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How strong is the
company?
Age?
Staff?
Experience?
Expertise?
Capacity?
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Workshop
Della G. Rucker, AICP, CEcD
Principal
Wise Economy Workshop
Phone: 513-288-6613
Della.Rucker@wiseeconomy.com
www.wiseeconomy.com
OnlinePublicEngagementEmporium.com
Facebook: Della Rucker Aicp Cecd
Twitter: @dellarucker
LinkedIn, etc. Della Rucker
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Editor's Notes
Uh, hi.
This is an annotated version of the presentation I gave at APA 2012 . Since I don’t put many words on my slides, they don’t make a lot of sense if you just download them. Plus I often tile pictures on top of each other, and that looks like a mess if you are just looking at a print.
I don’t work very closely from my notes when I give a talk, so these notes are based around what I think I said… or what a more clever version of me would have come up with at the time. And occasionally I think of something that I should have said and didn’t, so I’ll add that in here, too.
My good friend Nick Bowden from MindMixer also presented in this session, and he was awesome. I will post Nick’s presentation at www.wiseeconomy.com as well.
Ready? Mike check…
Let me start by telling you a few things about me so that you have some sense of where I am coming from. My undergraduate degree isn’t in planning, or economics or anything directly related to what I do today. When I got out of school, I was a teacher. Of course, I taught middle school, so my students weren’t anywhere near as cute as this, but come to think of it, neither was I.
I have one of these career paths that looks like cooked spaghetti… eventually, I ended up as a consulting planner for a series of big firms. One of the specializations that I developed early on was public engagement, and I approached public engagement a little differently because of my teaching background.
When I was in undergrad, the Big Thing in education was cooperative learning, which is a method for creating structured activities that help small groups of students make sense of complex information by working with it directly, with minimal teacher intervention. I still think that if you want to learn something, really learn it, this is _the_ way to do it. Period. So when I started doing public engagement, I drew on that experience to create activities where groups of residents work out solutions to tough challenges together, like these folks in South Bend, Indiana. I still do it this way.
At the same time, I am the mother of two kids – ages 13 and 10 now – and I have been a working mother for pretty much all of their lives. That means I have about no spare time for anything and I end up doing things like writing presentations in parking lots outside of jazz band practice with alarming frequency. As a result of that, I have become a pretty avid tech adopter – not because I am into the gee whiz of it, or have a thing about having the latest new tool, but because it helps me manage the chaos of my life better.
So: teacher, planner, moderate tech geek. What happens when those collide? A growing specialization in the use of online public engagement tools to meet planning and local government goals.
So here’s where we’re going. Ready?
So let’s be a little more practical for the moment: why should we be doing online public engagement? Sometimes people point to the gadgets and our love of the new, shiny technology. But that’s not the reason why at all.
We have a 19th century model of public engagement. When everyone worked on a farm, and public choices were pretty simple (and it was only the adult white males whose opinion we cared about, which leaves lots of hands to get the chores done while he goes to the town hall), then a 6 PM public meeting was the best way we had to make democratic decisions.
But today we have
A wider range of people who need to be part of the discussion,
More complicated decisions to make, and
More demands on that traditional meeting time window.
If you work many kinds of jobs, go to school, take care of a family, or simply cannot move yourself to the meeting space or speak and be understood in a public setting, your 6 PM meeting might as well be at midnight. On Mars. It’s simply out of reach.
Partly because of those time demands, we do what we need to do more and more online.
We’re just at the beginning of a sea change in how people live, and we tend to miss what a huge impact online sources have on our lives today. And it’s not just young people, or white people, or any specific demographic. Internet use increasingly crosses virtually all boundaries, and with touch screen devices and smart phones, even barriers like income, age and education are falling fast. Nick has some fascinating statistics on that.
So, ok, you know that your citizens are online and you need to be there…. So you put up a comment page, or a Facebook page, or something to “get their feedback.” What happens?
Well, in the case of a project I was working on in Cincinnati, the first thing that happened was that someone who had an axe to grind with a consultant on the project (and who apparently lives in Texas, which is about a thousand miles from Cincinnati), found the web site and wrote three long posts about how he thought this project was going to go.
Now, put aside for the moment the fact that the guy had some definite knee-jerk reactions, and some bad information, and didn’t live in the town he was talking about. Just look at the tone of the discussion. Does this sound like someone that a reasoned, level-headed person would want to spend time with?
I mentioned before that people often don’t show up to our public meetings because their work, family or personal situation prevent them from doing so. The other reason that they don’t show up is because too often, we have let this guy dominate the microphone. You don’t have to be too oversensitive to decide that a “public forum” that allows a few people to spout off their partially-informed opinions or flaunt their closed-mindedness, judgemental-ness or just plain craziness… is not a room that you want to hang out in. Not only is it uncomfortable, but it’s a waste of the time you could have spent working, parenting, studying or doing something else more productive.
It’s the same way in an online space – why would I spend my time here reading what the foaming whack-jobs have to say when I can find something more rewarding and less icky to do somewhere else?
Obviously that’s not to say that we don’t sometimes need to have public comment time, and that even nut jobs have a right to state their opinion. But if we are serious about involving people other than the three guys who always show up, we have to manage this situation. We need to do that because there are good ideas that we don’t hear because this doof is hogging the spotlight. We need to honor their time and their willingness to help find solutions, and we need especially to hear from the people who are too scared or too modest or physically incapable of speaking at a microphone or engaging in the online equivalent of a speech.
If we don’t proactively manage the situation to support that, they won’t come. If an open mic or comment thread is your only online public engagement, you are probably wasting your time, and that of your potential public partners.
A teacher doesn’t just put a book on a kid’s desk and say “Figure out the laws of physics. Test on Friday.” A teacher devises a logical progression of activities whose purpose is to help the student make sense of and gain mastery of the information. A few Mensa candidates might be able to ace the test after just reading the chapter, but most students need active teaching.
When we do public engagement, we need to create a process that helps the participants reach the goals. They don’t want to spend their time wandering in the woods, and if they bothered to participate, they want it to matter. For this reason, let alone what our project needs, we owe it to them to create a process that channels their activities in a productive manner.
If we want a stream of water to generate electricity, its power must be channeled through a productive process. It’s the same with public participants – whether online or in person. If we assume that random scattershot comments equals meaningful public engagement, we have done our project, our participants and our community a large disfavor.
Online public engagement technology is like many other Web 2.0 technologies right now: very fast-changing, very fluid, very entrepreneurial, and very under the radar. I find a new provider almost every other week at this point, and sometimes it seems like all they have in common with each other are humans and computers.
People often assume that one has to build a public engagement web site from scratch, but that’s seldom the case anymore. Just like a tailor is not the only way to get a suit, both pre-made but fitted and off-the-rack options are now available.
Most of the providers employ an “app” strategy: a relatively simple computer application that does a small number of things very well. Think of the apps on your smart phone. An app’s advantage is low cost and high speed of deployment, and the shortcoming of an app are flexibility and customization. While apps can often be “skinned” to match your logo or website and include your graphics and data, the basic structure of an app is pretty set. You can change a budget scenario app from pounds to dollars pretty easily, and you can probably change the categories it uses to fit your community, but if you want to change the basic operations to include triple-bottom-line calculations, you are probably out of luck.
Some providers provide one app, while others provide a suite of apps can be fitted together in one website and look like parts of the same whole.
There are also a couple of providers who rely on web modules – pre-made segments that can be employed, changed and recombined with a relatively high degree of flexibility. Developing a public engagement platform through this approach requires much more involvement than simply buying an app, but it is quicker and less costly than developing a web site from scratch.
PlaceSpeak is a new provider based in Vancouver that geo-locates a participant and marks their location on the map based on the information that the participant provides. When I open PlaceSpeak, it shows me a map of my neighborhood with a dot on my house, even though I live thousands of miles from their current projects.
For projects where location matters, like a neighborhood plan, it may be very important to know whether feedback is coming from inside or outside the area of interest, or even one side or another of a park or major highway. For other projects, such as perhaps a countywide comprehensive plan, this level of information might just make it harder to sort out the useful feedback from the noise. The tool need to fit what you need and what you plan to do with it.
Many people find an interface like this from MindMixer, with bright graphics and different colors, to be engaging and exciting. For certain projects (or project managers), however, this might look too busy or not serious enough.
Each provider has its own visual style, and they range from the very plain to the very graphical. I am sure some of the providers would disagree with me on this (some of them are very proud of their graphics!), but I don’t think it’s a one-size-fits-all. The right kind of interface is the one that will look right to the people you are trying to engage
As Nick will show you, use of phones and mobile devices to access the internet is exploding – and this is where the most intensive growth in internet usage among lower income and elderly persons is happening as well. If your online engagement tools don’t run well on both a “smart phone” and a normal cell phone, let alone a tablet, you are likely to be missing a significant portion of your community – and especially those who don’t have, can’t use or don’t want to use a conventional computer.
This screenshot is from Engaging Plans by Urban Interactive Studio, which recognizes whether you are accessing the URL from a mobile device and shifts you to a format that is optimized for a smaller screen.
If all you are doing is collecting comments to keep yourself out of legal trouble, like this quote appears to imply, you might as well go back to the town hall presentation with three people who show up to yell and then be ignored.
Instead, look for how the tool will help participants interact with each other constructively, like this shot from a MindMixer does. Can people support others’ ideas? Can they elaborate or add onto them? Can the ideas with the most support bubble to the top? How many different ways can they participate?
The first screenshot, from Open Town Hall’s site for Palo Alto, shows a system that is set up for the written word. This app uses some nice text-analysis tools, like the Word Cloud, to enable analysis of the hundreds of written comments in the system, but to participate, you have to be comfortable writing a paragraph of persuasive or analytical prose. In a highly educated community, that approach will probably work just fine, but we forget sometimes that not everyone is comfortable writing a paragraph for public consumption.
The second screenshot, from Crowdbrite, shows a very different approach. Not only do the visual cues imply something simpler and less formal than writing a paragraph, but you can also upload a picture or embed a video if that’s an easier way to get your point across.
Even if you yourself don’t use social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, rest assured that many of your residents – and especially the ones who aren’t showing up to your meetings – are. For many of all ages, social media tools have become the go-to resource for sharing what’s important to them with the people they care about.
Social media tools need to be integrated on several levels, from sharing the whole site to sharing specific comments. When you place a social media link, you are asking people to make a personal endorsement, so it’s crucial to be very careful to give people as much flexibility in what they share as possible. Otherwise they may not share anything.
As I discussed at the beginning of this section, some providers create apps, which others create semi-customizable platforms. There is a trade-off to be negotiated: how much do you want or need to be able to get into the guts of the platform, and how much of that kind of control do you have the technical capacity and time to mess with?
This dashboard from an EngagingPlans site (developed by Urban Interactive Studios), gives the administrator the flexibility to do almost anything. I can not only upload new information and edit the content, but I can change the page heading if I felt like it. I can’t do that myself with a MindMixer or most of the other app-based tools – I have to tell MindMixer staff what I want. In my case, I have enough technical chops to get pretty deep into the site management, and – even better– my client has a guy on staff who understands the programming code and can actually get in and change the structure of the site. That gives us a lot more ability to control the site directly. But not everyone wants to spend the time on it, or has the technical know-how to do it. And that’s OK. For a lot of communities, less control and responsibility might be better than too much.
PlaceSpeak, which I mentioned at the beginning of this section, asks for enough information to pinpoint your location on a map. Other tools will let you participate with little more than an email address. As with many things on the internet, there is a privacy/control tension to be navigated here, and a level of personal information that is rejected as too much to ask for in one community may be perfectly acceptable in another.
Do make sure that the provider you use asks for at least the user’s birth year – there are federal laws governing online activities on the part of people under 13 years old that you probably don’t want to tangle with. Also make certain that your provider includes the ability to block people who are crude or abusive or do something illegal or unethical. That’s a stick that you want to wield sparingly, or else you will be accused of censorship. But you need to have that option.
Like we saw with the Open Town Hall Word Cloud, data analysis can take a lot of forms. As part of choosing the correct tool to align with your objectives, you need to make certain that the site will generate the types of data you need, and allow you to work with that data the way you need to.
If a program-generated infographic will do the job and appeal to your users, look for a capacity like this, again from MindMixer. If you want to be able to run your own statistical analyses, make certain that the tool will let you download the data as a CSV or Excel file.
One of the biggest benefits of online public engagement is that it significantly lowers the barriers to participation for people who are disabled or for whom spoken English is difficult, such as people who commonly speak another language or who are on the autistic spectrum. However, website designers who are not thinking about access issues often make subtle mistakes that many of us would not notice, but which can prevent participation and understanding for some users. For example, a photo that does not have a text explanation embedded in the code can create confusion for someone who is using text-to-speech software.
Automatic translation tools, like the Google Translate widget, are critical for participation by people who speak other languages, but if it is going to be extensively used, it’s important to check the translation with a fluent speaker of the language to make sure it’s not coming through garbled.
As I noted at the beginning of this section, there are at least ten providers of online engagement tools today, and new ones emerge regularly. And just like you would review the credentials of a conventional consultant, you need to have a very deep understanding of a potential provider’s uses, approach, perspective and capacity before you give them your money.
Some providers have a staff of dozens, some have one person. Some have a long list of client references, some are too new to be able to point to much experience. Some are set up as a software purchase model, while others provide you with a subscription. And some give you the product and some instructions and turn you loose, while others are set up to work in partnership with you throughout your project. Which approach is right for you depends on your objectives, your budget, your project and your people.
One of the questions I always ask a new provider is, “What made you decide to create this product?” The answer to that gives you a key insight into what that particular tool is set up to do. A product developed by planners in response to a need to do better public engagement around a comprehensive plan has a very different approach than one developed by an architect to do charrettes, and both of those will differ substantially from the product developed by the former zoning commission member to make it easier to stay out of legal trouble. That’s not to say that there is a wrong or right approach. It is to say that the basic, underlying assumptions and perspective that led to development of the product will have a huge impact on what the product does – and what it doesn’t do.
Keep in mind that all of these firms are small businesses, and most of them can be classified as start-ups. Some are bootstrapped, others have deeper funding, but they are all small. In the economic development side of my practice, I spend a lot of time on entrepreneur development strategies, and a critical point for any entrepreneur is find your niche – focus on what you are good at, do that well, and don’t try to be everything to everyone.
That’s why it’s so important to look hard at what different providers do before you sign up with someone. Like a lot of young firms, these guys have a natural inclination to want to say “yes!” to everything – to think, sometimes, that they can do it all. When you’re a small business owner, you eventually learn that no, you can’t. But sometimes you have to get knocked in the head by saying yes to a client that you’re not really made for a time or two before you learn that lesson.
You might as well be part of their capacity-building, rather than part of their time in the school of hard knocks. It wlll be a better deal for you both.
Finally, there’s one more point that matters… walk away with this, if nothing else from this presentation.
Online tool are great – they can help us do our jobs in our communities much, much better. But they’re just a tool. You can have the prettiest web site, the most awesome public engagement doodads, but if people don’t get invited to participate -- truly and sincerely invited, and invited in a way that they actually get the invitation (read: a legal notice in the paper doesn’t cut it), then the best web site will be no more than a waste of time and money. If the invitation doesn’t get to them, and make sense to them, they won’t come to the party.
People want deeply to be on the team. Let them know that they can be on the team. More importantly, make sure they know that you want them to be on the team. They may not believe you at first – they have heard a lot of insincere junk before – but keep telling them that. You’re building a championship dynasty, and that online public engagement platform is one of the foundational drills. The strength of the team is always going to be its players.
Thanks. Here’s Nick Bowden, CEO of MindMixer.