Online engagement helps envision crowdsourced smart cities
In the emerging trend of community-based smart initiatives, Tooran Alizadeh envisions crowdsourced smart cities.
Sally Hussey
6 days ago
Tolerance and common good: e-participation impacts social polarisation
Recent study reveals e-participation directly influences perceptions of tolerance and common good.
Sally Hussey
3 weeks ago
Storytelling projects inspiring new community connections
Community engagement and public libraries suggest a certain symbiosis. Re-weaving this convergence, Sherry Norfolk and Jane Stenson highlight how storytelling strengthens community.
Sally Hussey
2 months ago
Public involvement framework fortifies Ireland’s Department of Health
A milestone resource, Ireland’s new ‘Framework for Public Involvement in Clinical Effectiveness Processes’ brings public participation front and centre in healthcare decision making.
Sally Hussey
2 months ago
Study finds citizen panels outdo public opinion polls
Citizen panels could generate better policy preferences than public opinion polls, finds recent Canadian study.
Sally Hussey
3 months ago
‘Putting the Internet on Trial’: UK youth juries deliberate their digital rights
UK youth juries ‘put the Internet on Trial’, using storytelling and drama to think about their rights.
Sally Hussey
4 months ago
Principles for activating effective health engagement
Evidence from health engagement produces eight guiding principles for successful initiatives, with inclusion, accessibility, and support key areas of focus.
Sally Hussey
4 months ago
The rise of the ‘smart citizen’ in Netherland’s pilot citizen science project
‘Smart citizen’s’ monitor water quality in Netherland’s pilot citizen science project, interlinking them to service providers, scientists and community co-volunteers.
Sally Hussey
5 months ago
Good democracies need “good citizens”: evaluating democratic quality
Evaluations of democracy have largely focused on the quality of democratic institutions, while overlooking a key actor: the citizen.
Sally Hussey
5 months ago
Reactivating local democracy in New Zealand
A recent report by The Policy Observatory, Auckland University of Technology, calls for a fortified local government system to revitalise democracy.
Sally Hussey
6 months ago
Shunning citizen engagement in infrastructure planning weakens democracy
Conflict around transport infrastructure planning processes reveals the crucial relationship between public infrastructure and democracy.
Sally Hussey
6 months ago
Review of Open Government Partnerships reveals tech’s role is minor
Christopher Wilson’s review of open government partnership (OGP) commitments in 61 countries reveals intentions for largely one-sided conversations – and a minor facilitating role for technology.
Sally Hussey
7 months ago
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