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Facipulator shared a video: Video: John Seddon to Scottish Finance Committee 'When you learn to study & manage value you drive costs out of the system' 4 months ago.
Video of Professor John Seddon giving evidence to the Scottish Finance Committee began at 1:16:10 Compelling watching as it shows how groupthink of economies of scale, best practice and other such thinking is spread about by a compliance culture. When we study how the system performs from the customers perspective and gather evidence of this performance in the form of data, many of the myths of management are exposed. If the embed doesn't work use the link below: http://news.bb... -
bengtfeil created Second PEP-NET online discourse on eParticipation in Central and Eastern Europe 5 months ago.
The Pan European eParticipation Network launched its second online discourse. The discourse starts today and you can go to www.internet-discourse.eu to take part (or go directly to http://www.internet-discourse.eu/demos.php?&page=new_author to register). eParticipation and civic engagement practitioners from Central, Eastern and Western Europe will discuss a wide range of issues: from opportunities and challenges, to the structural, political and cultural problems that may stand in the w... -
Tiago Peixoto edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 5 months ago.
Obviously it is not participatory budgeting, but this rather short list that I have compiled provides an idea of the variety of online initiatives type budget simulators / games. This might be useful to some of those interested in the use of ICTs in Participatory Budgeting experiences. If you know of other similar initiatives please let me know. (originally posted in Facebook's Participatory Budgeting group) FloodSim http://www.floodsim.com/ The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.... -
clark40 commented on An Experiment in Open Government or What a Brave New UK Government Might Do 5 months ago.
The link and summary below is an interview with Marshall Ganz of Harvard's Kennedy School, who helped build the organization for Obama's election campaign Clark mcdst USA
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SHIRSH commented on Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 5 months ago.
Nice work. It would be good to annotate the list and add a few references for each simulation.
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Andrew Regan commented on Achieving Massive Citizen Involvement in Policy-Making 5 months ago.
I really enjoyed this post, and that's a great set of questions. I've been doing a lot of similar thinking while developing Poblish - my attempt to create a crowdsourced policy-making platform - so I thought I'd share some of my thoughts and experiences.My take is that because politics is complicated, and because there are conflicts, constraints, and trade-offs, any system that conceals these inevitable facts of life from users risks producing results that are useless to policymakers. That di...
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Paul Johnston created Achieving Massive Citizen Involvement in Policy-Making 5 months ago.
Today (March 22) UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a major speech on building Britain’s Digital Future which included a commitment to opening “the door to new ways of enabling people to influence and even decide public policy”. And of course this is also something the Conservative Opposition have committed to. So how do you do it? Well, any new citizen participation platform needs to extremely user-friendly – you need to be able to go there, find the issue y... -
Paul Johnston created a post which has since been deleted. 5 months ago.
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Facipulator uploaded a PDF file: Lean and Systems Thinking in the Public Sector in Wales 5 months ago.
Just wanted to share some academic research commissioned by the Welsh Audit Office and carried out by Cardiff University. Here's some of the blurb from the report. Cardiff University’s Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) was commissioned to undertake an evaluation of systems thinking in the public sector on behalf of the Wales Audit Office as part of its programme focusing on efficiency and the constrained public sector financial environment. The Wales Audit Offic... -
Paul Johnston commented on An Experiment in Open Government or What a Brave New UK Government Might Do 6 months ago.
Certainly, a detailed conversation with anything like 50 mln people is not viable, but I certainly think there is scope for a more structured debate with citizen involvement. That could include allowing voting on packages of options, but personally I would not want to go to direct democracy and simply say "here are 100 possible budget measures; we will take the Y most popular measures subject to the overall budget impact of the different measures adding up to X".
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wherewithall (New User) commented on An Experiment in Open Government or What a Brave New UK Government Might Do 6 months ago.
I don't think a conversation with 50m people is viable. But how about a voting system for budget options?
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Paul Johnston created An Experiment in Open Government or What a Brave New UK Government Might Do 7 months ago.
Problem statement: Governments have improved consultation processes and experimented with other ways of getting citizens involved in policy-making, but policy-making is still seen as a black box that people feel excluded from. Also despite government efforts to listen more to outside voices including frontline public sector workers, the process of agreeing a change package can encourage a bunker mentality where potential problems (or implementation improvements) are missed in the dri... -
Tiago Peixoto edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 7 months ago.
Obviously it is not participatory budgeting, but this rather short list that I have compiled provides an idea of the variety of online initiatives type budget simulators / games. This might be useful to some of those interested in the use of ICTs in Participatory Budgeting experiences. If you know of other similar initiatives please let me know. (originally posted in Facebook's Participatory Budgeting group) FloodSim http://www.floodsim.com/ The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.... -
Tiago Peixoto edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 7 months ago.
Obviously it is not participatory budgeting, but this rather short list that I have compiled provides an idea of the variety of online initiatives type budget simulators / games. This might be useful to some of those interested in the use of ICTs in Participatory Budgeting experiences. If you know of other similar initiatives please let me know. (originally posted in Facebook's Participatory Budgeting group) FloodSim http://www.floodsim.com/ The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt....