Bang the Table provides evidence for the Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies regarding elected representative’s need to embrace digital technologies to support democratic engagement and ensure the efficacy of the democratic process.
The global decline of trust in government produces an array of complex questions and challenges for contemporary democracies. Decision-makers are increasingly acknowledging the need to listen to and understand the communities they serve.
We are looking forward to a lively discussion at the International Association of Public Participation’s (IAP2) USA conference this year exploring decision-making processes for when to go online and when to go in-person, or both, as far as community engagement is concerned. We will discuss the difference if we were to approach design from a “digital first” perspective. Join the session Online Engagement – Always? First? After? When? at IAP2 USA Conference on Friday, September 6 at 1 pm.
Engagement Specialist, Billy Trakas, shares strategies to increase your agency’s public participation by implementing inclusive engagement strategies.
I spent the last week traveling through Eastern Canada with Bang the Table’s North American Engagement team and our Co-Founder and Impact Lead, Crispin Butteriss, PhD. We got together to share ideas, plan for the future, and hear a series of presentations on Crispin’s emerging ideas and concepts regarding the practice of digital deliberation and digital first […]
Low performing public participation functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy in large transportation projects, find Ted Grossardt and Keiron Bailey.
Helen Pallet reviews organisational learning around UK’s Sciencewise program, a public participation body appointed to promote dialogue in science policy.
There’s more to evaluation than finding out if a project has been a success or failure. It can also say something about evaluation design.
Public participation evaluation frameworks delineates 14 frameworks in the USA to better comprehend engagement methodologies.
A worldwide surge in the use of public participation tools has seen the rise of the ‘participation professional’.
How do women participate in group discussions? Are their voices heard? Do they have a fair say in deliberation outcomes? Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg’s pathbreaking experimental research looks at gender in decision-making groups.
Where satire attempts to undermine autocracy and prejudice; the worst of fake news feeds into prejudices and seeks to create community outrage and undermine public confidence.
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