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Innovative forms and tools for public participation
Pippa Hyam
Director Dialogue by Design
Web and IT forms of public participation - 1
Social networking
- ‘Have your say forums and discussion threads
- Twitter and blogging
- Your Freedom consultation
- Crowd sourcing
Web and IT forms of public participation - 2
Intelligent use of databases
- Necessary to deal with the outputs of generating mass engagement
- Provision of organisation and clarity
- Need for transparency and an audit trail
- Dovetailing different channels of engagement
Different approaches to face to face participation
Deliberative processes
Taking time
Providing balanced information
Enabling challenge and discussion
Self-selection vs. representative samples
Depends on the objectives
Numbers?
Use of networks
Clarity of objectives
Transmit, Collaborate or Receive
Mixing traditional and novel approaches
Integration of online and face to face applications
- Gathering feedback from multiple processes and events
- Providing a focussed channel for feedback
- Taking best practice from IT and from face to face.