Opening Government to Public Input

Posted by on May 16, 2009 in Blog, events, open government | 0 comments

No communications endeavour is rish free. That didn’t come out right and it’s a dialogue. You have to listen first, these conversations are happening wheather you are listening or not. Then you push the news releases to the rest of the department. Where are we going with all of this? As a push medium and p to p we are there. What is going to be the feedback and have to be baked into the system as well. Translate into action. How do you start it and what do you do? How influencial can that feedback be? It’s never going to...

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Change Camp Ottawa – section “C” on social media in government department

Posted by on May 16, 2009 in Blog, events, open government, Twitter | 1 comment

I am at Change Camp Ottawa and there are a lot of very good sessions lined up. I am currently blogging from the Social Media in Government session. For live blogging check the Apt 613 Blog. Public Health Agency of Canada, during swine flu they were using twitter to keep folks updated. There are tonnes of folks complaining about government agencies on twitter, but is anyone watching them and responding? It seems that there is currently no mechanism to respond to these complaints and help out. Fisheries is using twitter to send out releases,...

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Government and Citizenship in the age of participation

Posted by on May 15, 2009 in Blog, events, open government | 0 comments

Tomorrow is going to be the dawn of a new day….Change Camp Ottawa. What is this about? Why give up a long weekend for this? “ChangeCamp Ottawa is being organized by the Ottawa community to bring together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy makers, political players, change-makers and government employees to discuss participatory governance in a web-enabled world.” How do we re-imagine government and citizenship in the age of participation? This seems a little out there and confusing so I thought that I would...

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