Re: [changecamp] Digest for changecamp@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

[Michael Lewkowitz]

I'd love to see a changecamp about change. How it happens. How we do it. How we can help it happen.

On 2009-11-20, at 2:43 PM, chang...@googlegroups.com wrote:

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 Topic: ChangeCamp Toronto 2010!

Mark Kuznicki <mark.k...@gmail.com> Nov 20 12:04PM -0500

 
Hi everyone,
 
I wanted to ask ChangeCampers for their ideas on what we could do
together in Toronto in 2010. I am putting together a proposal for the
Toronto Community Foundation (deadline December 1st) to fund a program
of work in Toronto during 2010 and I need your input.
 
(FYI, I will eventually hive off Toronto into a separate city-focused
Google Group, but for now I'd like to host this conversation here.)
 
ChangeCampTO 2009 was a success by many measures. Toronto's open data
program and DataTO.org, the Ontario Public Service WiredCamp event and
myriad other conversations and connections were made that have planted
seeds of change in many different parts of our public life.
ChangeCampTO became a model and a meme that moved to Ottawa,
Vancouver, Edmonton and soon Halifax (December 5th) with Victoria,
Windsor, London, Barrie, Thunder Bay and on and on all have interested
organizers. I think it's fair to say we started a movement.
 
So what's next for Toronto?
 
Considering the 2010 municipal election context, I think a strong
municipal and hyper-local focus is something that makes a lot of sense.
 
I would like to develop the model further, see how it can get to the
neighbourhood or community level, how we can connect more
conversations and ideas together, and how we do a much better job at
post-event action.
 
I am thinking about a shift from a government focus to a community
action focus (with government at the table) and enabling neighbourhood
ChangeCamps that can be self-organized by neighbourhood leaders.
 
These leaders will need tools, training and support. They will need to
learn how to design, organize, recruit, pay for and promote a
ChangeCamp. They will need help in terms of methods, resources and
relationships.
 
I am also thinking about a penultimate ChangeCamp event that would
draw from these hyper-local neighbourhood ChangeCamps and feature the
best ideas, the most interesting voices and give them a platform the
size of the city to share those ideas and inform the public discourse
during the election season.
 
I am thinking about what happens after an election, how ideas can
really be turned into action and positive change for our city.
 
But this is just a beginning based on my ideas.
 
What do others think? What would you want to do? How could you
contribute to something big and impactful in 2010?
 
 

 

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