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Sandy Heierbacher: Deliberative Policy Engagement – Nine Principles

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Methods & Process, Policies, White Papers
Sandy Heierbacher

Deliberative Public Engagement: Nine Principles

Posted by   |  August 18th, 2011

Deliberative is a distinctive approach to involving people in . It is different from other forms of engagement in that it is about giving participants time to consider and discuss an issue in depth before they come to a considered view. The aim of this 18-page background paper (2008) from Involve and the National Consumer Council is to encourage and support deliberative in public policy.

itself – where a range of people learn, discuss and work out solutions together – is not new. Forums, advisory groups, partnerships and some forms of consultation have done this for years and are becoming increasingly sophisticated. More recently, citizens’ juries and large-scale citizens’ summits have found favour with government and public service providers at both local and national levels.

Involve and the National Consumer Council (NCC) believe that deliberative can be valuable in helping to create better public services, promote social cohesion and foster a thriving democracy. There is already good practice throughout the UK, and the full potential contribution of to improving the quality of decisions and policy solutions, and to enhancing representative democracy is becoming clearer as experience grows.

The government and other public bodies are currently developing general guidelines on public and stakeholder engagement – making it timely for Involve and NCC to draw on the growing body of learning and evidence to contribute a set of specific principles on deliberative public engagement from outside government.

This is far from being the last word. Over the next year Involve and NCC will continue to monitor the field, listen to feedback on the value and relevance of these principles, and consider the potential need for more detailed guidance. In the mean time, we hope our work will contribute to the already-flourishing debate on the role of deliberative public engagement in Britain today.

Resource Link

Phi Beta Iota:  The 18 page document is available in English, French, and Turkish.  The nine principles of public engagement discussed in the document are:

  • The process makes a difference.
  • The process is transparent.
  • The process has integrity.
  • The process is tailored to circumstances.
  • The process involves the right number and types of people.
  • The process treats participants with respect.
  • The process gives priority to participants' discussions.
  • The process is reviewed and evaluated to improve practice.
  • Participants are kept informed.

See Also:

Tom Atlee: Citizen Deliberations – Chart and Options

Participatory Budgeting Practices, Games, Resources

Memoranda: Policy-Budget Outreach Tool

 

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Reference: Co-Laboratories of Democracy

Blog Wisdom, White Papers

Co-Laboratories of Democracy

We have all experienced the benefits of dialogue when we openly and thoughtfully confront issues. We have also experienced the frustration of interminable discussion that does not lead to progress. The Institute for 21st Century Agoras and CWA Ltd are dedicated to the application and installation of the Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD), and the use of the CogniScopeTM software, in designing and conducting Co-Laboratories of Democracy, which enable large, diverse groups of stakeholders to dialogue and generate positive results.  Many group processes engender enthusiasm and good feeling as people share their concerns and hopes with each other. Co-Laboratories of democracy go beyond this initial euphoria to:

Discover root causes;

Adopt consensual action plans;

Develop teams dedicated to implementing those plans; and

Generate lasting bonds of respect, trust, and cooperation.

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Secrecy News: ACLU to Congress on Curbing Secrecy

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, White Papers
Steven Aftergood

ACLU:  CONGRESS MUST ACT TO CURB SECRECY

“Congress must take the lead in challenging the laws and practices that have allowed excessive secrecy to become the dominant feature of our national security culture,” the American Civil Liberties Union urged in a new report on government secrecy.

“The excessive secrecy that hides how the government pursues its national security mission is undermining the core principles of democratic government and injuring our nation in ways no terrorist act ever could,” wrote Mike German and Jay Stanley, the authors of the ACLU report.  “It is time for Congress to make the secrecy problem an issue of the highest priority, and enact a sweeping overhaul of our national security establishment to re-impose democratic controls.”

The report provides a fluid account of current secrecy policy, along with a critique from first principles as well as from recent experience.  Highly readable and thoroughly footnoted, the 51 page report covers a spectrum of secrecy issues, from the state secrets privilege to secret law to the role of national security whistleblowers, and a lot more.  It concludes with a menu of recommended reforms that Congress could and, the authors say, should undertake.

The title of the report sums it up:  “Drastic Measures Required:  Congress Needs to Overhaul U.S. Secrecy Law and Increase Oversight of the Secret Security Establishment” by Mike German and Jay Stanley, July 2011.

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John Marke: Complexity Enhanced Risk Insights

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John Marke

Accenture isn’t “top of mind” when we think of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)…for now.   I recall a Senior Director at consulting firm I worked for (it's no longer in business)  tell an auditorium of about 1000 consultants “I'm not afraid of Accenture.  They don't scare me.”  Ah huh.

I thought: “That's because you haven't come up against them in the market.”   Look, this Risk Report is more than a compilation of statistics and trends, it tells us a lot about Accenture's corporate culture and what's important to them.  But first, go get the App!

The App – They ought to charge you for it. A couple of clicks and you’re got customized and mobile knowledge management. Works on your iPhone, iPad, Android device or laptop. The only way they could have made it better is to have tossed in Key Board Cat for good measure. Accenture wants to be your E-Buddy and they'll go through a lot of expense to spoon feed you great info.

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Reference (2003): Augmented Social Network

Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), IO Mapping, Methods & Process, Policies, Reform, Serious Games, Standards, Threats, White Papers
Venessa Miemis

NEW: Archived & Expanded at P2P Foundation/ASN

this paper covers a lot of the ground we've been discussing here [at Google Group Next Net] about what kind of intentions a ‘next net' would facilitate. worth a read.

Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-General Internet by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, Steven Foster

as presented at the Planetwork conference on “Networking a Sustainable Future” in San Francisco on June 6, 2003

as published First Monday, Volume 8, Number 8 – 4 August 2003

Phi Beta Iota: The current approaches to “identity” are vestiges of the industrial-era commoditization of humans and the fragmentation of the commons.  In the 1990's the Hackers Conference (Silicon Valley) discussed trust and identity authentication in combination with anonymnity (or better, invisibility).