Inclusive Engagement – Why Knowing Your Audience Matters
Engagement Specialist, Billy Trakas, shares strategies to increase your agency’s public participation by implementing inclusive engagement strategies.
Inclusive Strategies for Community Engagement – Designing a Better Public Meeting
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 […]
Running on empty: refuelling public participation in transportation planning
Low performing public participation functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy in large transportation projects, find Ted Grossardt and Keiron Bailey.
Organisational learning connects public participation in science policy
Helen Pallet reviews organisational learning around UK’s Sciencewise program, a public participation body appointed to promote dialogue in science policy.
Reflections on public participation evaluation frameworks USA
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: USA
Public participation evaluation frameworks delineates 14 frameworks in the USA to better comprehend engagement methodologies.
The rise and rise of the public participation professional
A worldwide surge in the use of public participation tools has seen the rise of the ‘participation professional’.
Women in public participation? Present but not heard.
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.
Fake news: is it a threat to public participation?
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.
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.
Public participation central to resilient smart city planning
Technology can connect urban environments. But, that’s not all it takes to build a resilient smart city. Citizen engagement has a critical role to play, writes Sam Musa.
Creating meaning in public participation
Creating meaning in the practice of public participation in governance is addressed by Kathryn S. Quick and John M. Bryson in ‘Handbook on Theories of Governance’, edited by Jacob Torbing and Chris Ansell.
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