wrapup

[scilib]

Thanks to everyone for a successful ChangeCamp.

Photos are up on Flickr with tag cco10, please add yours.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cco10/

If you add machine tag upcoming:event=6594809 it will also show a
"Taken at ChangeCamp Ottawa 2010" notice.

If you have session notes, please add them as a page to this google
group. You can see the curent pages at

http://groups.google.com/group/changecampottawa/web

Tweets were captured on Friendfeed, the archive is at

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There was also a nice initiative to capture some of the URLs presented

http://delicious.com/julien.lamarche/cco10+apps
http://delicious.com/julien.lamarche/cco10+links

We got a good writeup in the Citizen

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/happy+Ottawa+adopt+open+data+policy/3292205/story.html

Discussion will continue through this Google Group and on Twitter with
hashtag #cco10

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23cco10

-- Richard Akerman
@scilib

[Mary Beth Baker]

Here are the notes session A in the second round: Participatory
Democracy in our City

Shifting the morphogenic field of municipal governance

There is currently a citizen-led project in Ottawa exploring
participatory democracy for municipal governance. For further info
see:

http://knowingourcommunity.wordpress.com/
Here are the notes from the Change Camp discussion:

Look at government from a bigger perspective, e.g. systems thinking –
and grow the organic entity of governance – not just single issues
Need evolutionary process rather than just back and forth that happens
between newly elected councils
Perhaps Open data can make this smoother evolutionary process possible
How do you engage people to use the tools?
Tenants often don’t vote
Citizen comments need to be actioned for engagement
To encourage participation, people need feedback on when their
participation is not effective
The messiness of policy-making needs to be part of the process
There needs to be a conversation
There needs to be space for people to change their minds
It’s about the process
All stakeholders need to be part of the research and analysis process.
It doesn’t work if government starts consulting the public after all
of the research is already done – because by then they are already
committed to a particular course of action. And the consultation of
the public is no longer really a consultation.
A methodology like Open Space Technology ( http://www.openspaceworld.org/
) works better than an executive style. However, until the “100th
monkey” is on board, both styles will probably be deployed during the
transition.
Perhaps it’s better to have law of democratic selection ;-) -- where
councillors make decisions for their area
Participation needs to be local and ongoing, where government feels
that they are a participant who is also learning


I also have some pictures that I'll put up in the next little while.

mb

On Jul 18, 12:55 pm, scilib <sci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for a successful ChangeCamp.
>
> Photos are up on Flickr with tag cco10, please add yours.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cco10/
>
> If you add machine tag upcoming:event=6594809 it will also show a
> "Taken at ChangeCamp Ottawa 2010" notice.
>
> If you have session notes, please add them as a page to this google
> group.  You can see the curent pages at
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/changecampottawa/web
>
> Tweets were captured on Friendfeed, the archive is at
>
> http://friendfeed.com/changecamp-ottawa
>
> There was also a nice initiative to capture some of the URLs presented
>

> http://delicious.com/julien.lamarche/cco10+appshttp://delicious.com/julien.lamarche/cco10+links

>
> We got a good writeup in the Citizen
>

> http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/happy+Ottawa+adopt+open+data+policy...