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• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games about 1 month 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games about 1 month 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 3 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 3 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• created Mapping Participatory Budgeting and e-Participatory Budgeting 4 months ago.

  This is still work in progress. I have been trying to map  participatory budgeting and e-participatory budgeting initiatives across the world.There are many more e-participatory budgeting initiatives to be inserted, as well as offline initiatives. The e-PB initiatives included so far are highlighted in red color. If anyone here at TCR can think of any cases to be included or would like to collaborate in this effort, please let me know. Any suggestions on how I could make this map more ...

• commented on Public Services 2.0 in Europe - the story continues 5 months ago.

  Paul, Congratulations to you and David. I particularly like the"participation" section: concise and straight to to the point.

• created GSA: Engaging Citizens in Government 5 months ago.

  The US General Services Administration (GSA) has just released its Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter.   Entitled "Engaging Citizens in Government", all  of the articles in the current edition should be of interest to those working on the use of ICTs as a means to enhance citizen participation.   To those particularly interested in e-Participatory Budgeting, I have co-authored a small text (p.23) on the cases of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and La Plata (Argentina). &...

• 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• commented on Govt 2.0 Briefing Paper 6 months ago.

  Thank you for that resource!

• edited Territorial representation and ideational e-constituencies 8 months ago.

  It is easy to identify an existent and increasing disjunction between representation based on territorial constituencies and the preferences of citizens that, many times, are not circumscribed by any territory. In practice, such a fact leads to a representation deficit, where elected representatives fail to represent - or even to contemplate - preferences of constituents.  In that case, preferences that are dispersed and not contained within a territory have little or no chance of being ...

• created Territorial representation and ideational e-constituencies 8 months ago.

  It is easy to identify an existent and increasing disjunction between representation based on territorial constituencies and the preferences of citizens that, many times, are not circumscribed by any territory. In practice, such a fact leads to a representation deficit, where elected representatives fail to represent - or even to contemplate - preferences of constituents.  In that case, preferences that are dispersed and not contained within a territory have little or no chance of being ...

• commented on Serendipity for Online Deliberation? 8 months ago.

  Here's a good example where the user can see how others have rated an idea only after he submits his own rating. http://scenic.mysociety.org/  

• commented on Serendipity for Online Deliberation? 8 months ago.

  As to ranking systems, 2 more options to make them to work a bit more effectively: a)    give people a limited set of randomly selected ideas to vote for b)    let people vote in a limited set of pairs (one idea compared to the other) Of course, in both cases, the number of votes needs to be significantly higher than the number of ideas. Still in that case, the (overal) relative degree of agreement with an idea should only be visible to the user after he casts...

• commented on Connected Volunteering 8 months ago.

  Paul,  Look at this http://www.theextraordinaries.org/ "on demand volunteerism by mobile phone".  Also check their youtube video http://www.youtube.com/theextraordinaries

• commented on Serendipity for Online Deliberation? 8 months ago.

  Tim, I think that exposing the relative degree to which participants may or may not agree with a statement is a step further. But it still introduces a bias in the process. In this case, I believe that the relative degree of agreement should only be visible to the user after he casts his vote or at the end of the deliberation process itself. 

• created Serendipity for Online Deliberation? 8 months ago.

  I was going to reply to Paul's comment and this actually became a post.  Having suggested the idea of inversed tag clouds as a means to enhance serendipity, Paul pointed out two cases in which serendipity can be desirable: 1) where you know that all the entries are of a certain standard and 2) where the most popular ones are likely for that reason to be less interesting. In this respect, I would like to speculate to what extent serendipity can be desirable in large-scale deliberation...

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 8 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 8 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 8 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• commented on Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 8 months ago.

  Thanks Tim! Will do it asap, and link it to the "serendipity" idea. 

• created Serendipity and inversed tag clouds 8 months ago.

  A quick idea i have been working on and would like some feedback on: could inversed tag clouds (most read smaller and vice-versa) enhance serendipity online?

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 8 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• tagged Empowerment: a Systematic Review of the Evidence with the tag ParticipatoryBudgeting 9 months ago.

• created Empowerment: a Systematic Review of the Evidence 9 months ago.

  On the 1st of June, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) in the UK published online the paper  “Empowering communities to influence local decision making: A systematic review of the evidence”.In this paper, Prof. Lawrence Pratchett and his colleagues provide evidence-based lessons on six empowerment mechanisms:1)      asset transfer2)      citizen governance3)      e-participation...

• edited Multi-channel citizen engagement: the Ipatinga PB experience (PB part 3) 10 months ago.

  Following this series of posts about Participatory Budgeting (PB), I would like to describe an experiment in the coordination of which I had the pleasure to participate, which took place in the framework of the e-Agora Project (co-financed by the EC) in the city of Ipatinga, Brazil.  Prior to 2001, community leaders of the city of Ipatinga collected written proposals for public works from citizens during neighbourhood meetings which were then submitted for deliberation in PB in loco m...

• edited Multi-channel citizen engagement: the Ipatinga PB experience (PB part 3) 10 months ago.

  Following this series of posts about Participatory Budgeting (PB), I would like to describe an experiment in the coordination of which I had the pleasure to participate, which took place in the framework of the e-Agora Project (co-financed by the EC) in the city of Ipatinga, Brazil.  Prior to 2001, community leaders of the city of Ipatinga collected written proposals for public works from citizens during neighbourhood meetings which were then submitted for deliberation in PB in loco m...

• edited Multi-channel citizen engagement: the Ipatinga PB experience (PB part 3) 10 months ago.

  Following this series of posts about Participatory Budgeting (PB), I would like to describe an experiment in the coordination of which I had the pleasure to participate, which took place in the framework of the e-Agora Project (co-financed by the EC) in the city of Ipatinga, Brazil.  Prior to 2001, community leaders of the city of Ipatinga collected written proposals for public works from citizens during neighbourhood meetings which were then submitted for deliberation in PB in loco m...

• tagged Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games with the tag ParticipatoryBudgeting 10 months ago.

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 10 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• created EU profiler for EU (EP) Elections 10 months ago.

  The EU Profiler is now (11 am) officially launched for the EU parliamentary elections.  Check it out! www.euprofiler.eu    

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 11 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• commented on The Price of Transparency 11 months ago.

  Paul,  Thanks for that, I do think I see your point and that may well be the truth: “if a consultation *looks* like it will offer the ability to make actual change, people 'game' it. If it looks just like a conversation, they may not - and that can often have a better outcome.” But another perspective can be also possible: One could argue that the degree of engagement of a citizen in a dialogue is proportional to their perception of the importance of the issue and of t...

• commented on The Price of Transparency 11 months ago.

  Dear Paul (Evans) You seem to be quite resistant to participatory initiatives that are  gov / politicians led, which leads you to state that " initiated by public bodies or politicians - when this happens, all you hear is a lot of shouting." I am really sorry that the experiences that you have come across seemed to be a "lot of shouting". I would say your experience is statistically funny, because that is not what happens most of the time when there is a good participatory design.&nbs...

• tagged Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games with the tag budget simulators about 1 year ago.

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games about 1 year 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• edited The Price of Transparency about 1 year ago.

  The use of websites by governments as a means to increase budgetary transparency by providing easily accessible information doesn’t stop growing. The Center for Fiscal Accountability does a great job by periodically tracking these initiatives across the United States and its latest update, in March, provides a listing of 26 websites that have gone live since 2007. More impressive is the growing number of legislative initiatives across the U.S. aiming at increasing and deepening the i...

• created The Price of Transparency about 1 year ago.

  The use of websites by governments as a means to increase budgetary transparency by providing easily accessible information doesn’t stop growing. The Center for Fiscal Accountability does a great job by periodically tracking these initiatives across the United States and its latest update, in March, provides a listing of 26 websites that have gone live since 2007. More impressive is the growing number of legislative initiatives across the U.S. aiming at increasing and deepening the i...

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games about 1 year 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• edited Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games about 1 year 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• created Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games about 1 year 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) The Maryland Budget Game http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html ...

• created A Touch of Classics on Collaboration about 1 year ago.

  A while ago I read Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens  by Josiah Ober, and since then I have been thinking about what it contributes to the ongoing debates about collaboration in the public sector, participatory democracy and even WEB 2.0. At the risk of being unfair to the monumentality of Ober’s work, I would try to summarize it as a work that, building on analytical tools from institutional design and organized collective action theories, dem...

• commented on EU Profiler: voting advice application for the 2009 EP elections about 1 year ago.

  We are working on that Simon. The data is going to be massive. 

• commented on EU Profiler: voting advice application for the 2009 EP elections about 1 year ago.

  I totally agree with you Simon, and the data that we are going to get from this is incredible. Related to your point, for instance, by seeing how citizens' preferences are matched at the national / European level we can see to what extent territorial constituencies are still relevant when it comes to representing citizens' preferences at the European level. 

• commented on Vote for your Park: nothing but a bad idea? about 1 year ago.

  For those who have not seen yet, here are the results of the rather polemic "Vote for Your Park" initiative.  http://www.london.gov.uk/parksvote/results/  

• created EU Profiler: voting advice application for the 2009 EP elections about 1 year ago.

  Here's a link to a video about the EU Profiler, a Voting Advice Application for the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections. http://www.euronews.net/en/article/27/02/2009/an-orientation-tool-for-eu-voters/ The EU Profiler has been developed here at the European University Institute with the collaboration of a unique team of international researchers. A bit more about the EU Profiler: "The EU Profiler is a Europe-wide Voting Advice Application (VAA) or a party profiling website for the Europ...

• commented on How do you stop Collaboration from being the Cinderella? about 1 year ago.

  Paul, The idea of collaboration audits seems quite interesting (besides its goldmine potential). However, in more specific terms, how would you measure the quality of collaborative policies?  

• commented on When Desperate Times Call for Participatory Measures about 1 year ago.

  Paul, Just to clarify, when I mentioned delivering “substantive results” it does not necessarily mean that citizens have an actual role in saying what gets cut and what doesn’t. In this context, substantive results means providing meaningful feedback to the citizens on how their inputs were treated.   In my opinion this provision of evidence that citizens’ input was at least fairly considered is still a pre-condition to the validity of 2), 3) and 4). &nbs...

• edited When Desperate Times Call for Participatory Measures about 1 year ago.

  41 U.S. states currently face budget gaps, and judging by the forecasts of even the most optimistic specialists, such a situation is far from being substantially changed in the near future. In this context, it is particularly interesting to highlight the few ICT mediated initiatives that are starting to take place at the subnational (state) level in the United States, aiming – at least supposedly – to get citizens involved in the budgetary process. For instance, in Novemb...

• created When Desperate Times Call for Participatory Measures about 1 year ago.

  41 U.S. states currently face budget gaps, and judging by the forecasts of even the most optimistic specialists, such a situation is far from being substantially changed in the near future. In this context, it is particularly interesting to highlight the few ICT mediated initiatives that are starting to take place at the subnational (state) level in the United States, aiming – at least supposedly – to get citizens involved in the budgetary process. For instance, in Novemb...

• created Just released: Open Budget Index about 1 year ago.

  The International Budget Partnership released today the Open Budget Index (OBI). The UK scores first on the provision of budget information to its public, followed by South Africa, France, New Zealand and the United States. On the other hand, 80% of the surveyed governments fail to provide sufficient information on the budget to its public.The study takes into account an important aspect which is the release of a simplified and accessible version of the budget (citizen’s budget). In thi...

• commented on Vote for your Park: nothing but a bad idea? about 1 year ago.

  Thanks again for the comments and thanks to Simon for the reference to this great article. It is also great to see Ruth here and have the views of the PB Unit expressed so clearly. I agree that the vote for your park is far from being a PB, and as far as I could see the city government has not referred to it as such. So, to a certain extent, I believe there is a low risk of people associating the vote for your park initiative with PB. As to the provision of evidence of good practices of the u...

• commented on Vote for your Park: nothing but a bad idea? about 1 year ago.

  Thanks for all the comments: it is good to write a post that generates a bit more discussion.   First of all, I believed I was clear in underlining the flaws and referring to the initiative in terms of its potential. “Potential”, in this case, refers to the literal sense, as the “capacity to become” and “as opposed to the actual”.  In this sense, I would still argue that the potential of the initiative is much higher than many other (but again,...

• edited Vote for your Park: nothing but a bad idea? about 1 year ago.

  The London government has launched an initiative called “Vote for your Park”, where Londoners can decide where to allocate ten grants of up to £400,000 for London's parks. Voting can be made through the Internet, SMS and postal voting. Since the launch of the initiative there has been criticism about the security of the system and the participatory design of the initiative. I do not know very much about local governments in the UK and I am not at all a specialist in secur...

• edited Vote for your Park: nothing but a bad idea? about 1 year ago.

  The London government has launched an initiative called “Vote for your Park”, where Londoners can decide where to allocate ten grants of up to £400,000 for London's parks. Voting can be made through the Internet, SMS and postal voting. Since the launch of the initiative there has been criticism about the security of the system and the participatory design of the initiative. I do not know very much about local governments in the UK and I am not at all a specialist in secur...

• edited Vote for your Park: nothing but a bad idea? about 1 year ago.

  The London government has launched an initiative called “Vote for your Park”, where Londoners can decide where to allocate ten grants of up to £400,000 for London's parks. Voting can be made through the Internet, SMS and postal voting. Since the launch of the initiative there has been criticism about the security of the system and the participatory design of the initiative. I do not know very much about local governments in the UK and I am not at all a specialist in secur...

• created Vote for your Park: nothing but a bad idea? about 1 year ago.

  The London government has launched an initiative called “Vote for your Park”, where Londoners can decide where to allocate ten grants of up to £400,000 for London's parks. Voting can be made through the Internet, SMS and postal voting. Since the launch of the initiative there has been criticism about the security of the system and the participatory design of the initiative. I do not know very much about local governments in the UK and I am not at all a specialist in secur...

• created Multi-channel citizen engagement: the Ipatinga PB experience (PB part 3) about 1 year ago.

  Following this series of posts about Participatory Budgeting (PB), I would like to describe an experiment in the coordination of which I had the pleasure to participate, which took place in the framework of the e-Agora Project (co-financed by the EC) in the city of Ipatinga, Brazil.  Prior to 2001, community leaders of the city of Ipatinga collected written proposals for public works from citizens during neighbourhood meetings which were then submitted for deliberation in PB in loco m...

• commented on Participatory Budgeting and e-Democracy (part 2): the Belo Horizonte case about 1 year ago.

  By the way, I forgot to mention that this year's version of the e-PB of Belo Horizonte  phone voting will also be possible. Citizens just need to dial a tool free number and, after providing their electors' number, they will be able cast their votes.    

• commented on Participatory Budgeting and e-Democracy (part 2): the Belo Horizonte case about 1 year ago.

  Dear Paul,  I will try to answer your comments in parts:  1) Even though the traditional PB (offline) has a much bigger budget, its public works are of smaller scale, on average 126 public works of US$ 340.000 each. The e-PB consisted of only 9 works of US$ 1.2 million each.  One of my hunches is that one of the reasons for the success of the e-PB – apart from the use of ICTs - was that even though it had a smaller budget it was not as fragmented as the tra...

• created Participatory Budgeting and e-Democracy (part 2): the Belo Horizonte case about 1 year ago.

  This post is based on a paper of mine published by the Electronic Democracy Centre (Zurich University) about the experience of the e-Participatory Budgeting of the city of Belo Horizonte. In part 1 of this post I use extracts from a short article by Dan Jellinek (Headstar) and myself that aimed to present a summary of the published paper. At the end, I will add some information contained in the paper about the votes that was not included in the summary article.    1) &nb...

• created Participatory Budgeting and e-Democracy (Part 1) about 1 year ago.

  Participatory Budgeting (PB) can be broadly defined as the participation of citizens in the decision-making process of budget allocation and monitoring public spending. Participation may take various forms, from effective decision-making power in the allocation of resources to more modest initiatives that confer voice during the development of the budget. Added to the normative claim that PB gives citizens the opportunity to participate in decisions that directly affect them, it is expecte...