International public participation models 1969 – 2016
Second in our series of Engagement Primers, 54 international participation models to better map public participation in practice and theory.
Sally Hussey
3 years ago
Innovative technologies trigger engaged citizenry: Smart cities are engaging cities
From the emergence of e-governance, innovations of living laboratories to pokémon GO, Mark Dean unpacks recent literature around smart city technologies for twenty-first century engagement.
Mark Dean
3 years ago
Hard science of consultation efficiency: can ‘Effective Number of Issues’ improve engagement practice?
Can a ‘science’ of consultation improve engagement practice? Dr John May introduces information theory’s ‘Effective Number of Issues’ to better map efficiency of the consultation process.
Dr John May
3 years ago
Social media, public tokenism and asylum seeker activism: can Facebook provide ‘meaningful’ support?
While people use social media to cultivate a positive self-image, they can equally be interested in engaging in issues of social justice. Dr Fiona McKay looks at issues of ‘meaningful’ support of asylum seeker activism and refugee advocacy in online engagement.
Fiona McKay
3 years ago
Manufacturing engagement: no place for making things
Mark Dean, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University, continues his examination of government policy responses to manufacturing deindustrialisation in this two-part series: Manufacturing engagement.
Mark Dean
3 years ago
5 Practical Ingrediants for Building Fiscal Trust: Part 2
In Part II of their series on fiscal trust, Dina Graser and Pamela Robinson uncover five practical ingredients necessary for building public and fiscal trust and ask, what does trust mean and how do government’s gain fiscal trust with communities in supporting public infrastructure?
Dina Graser
Pamela Robinson
3 years ago
‘Likes’, ‘shares’ and ‘thumbs up’: Facebook and political participation, or what’s in it for the me generation?
Is Facebook more likely to encourage political participation among young people? Darren G. Lilleker, Head of the Centre for Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University, brings into focus where, how and why young people engage – and disengage – with politics.
Dr Darren G Lilleker
3 years ago
Food security, asylum seekers and the Food Justice Truck
Since 2012 Deakin University and Pozible.com have funded research for social good – research that may otherwise be sidelined by traditional channels. Fiona McKay, School of Health and Social Development, expands on the current campaign for food security for asylum seekers in a mobile fresh food market, the Food Justice Truck.
Fiona McKay
3 years ago
Fundamental Issue of Fiscal Trust: Part I
Dina Graser, Senior Advisor at the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance, University of Toronto and Pamela Robinson, Associate Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University, suggest citizen engagement processes can be mapped onto dimensions of “trust”.
Dina Graser
Pamela Robinson
3 years ago
Children’s civic engagement
The Scratch online community addresses children’s civic engagement. Children and youth are provided a space to program, share, and discuss interactive media projects. A project by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, members have shared over 16.3 million projects and 87.4 million project comments.
Sally Hussey
3 years ago
International frameworks for citizen engagement and civil society
Global intergovernmental organizations and agencies – and non-government organizations – are undeniably conscious of the call for increased public participation. Here is a list of 26 international citizen engagement frameworks.
Sally Hussey
3 years ago
Redesigning civic education and youth engagement
Redesigning civic education, Joseph Kahne, Erica Hodgin, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl interrogate digital practice to better understand youth democratic engagement.
Sally Hussey
3 years ago
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