Peter Levine says… “Although I acknowledge the value of expertise, we can identify several important general reasons why it is never enough and we always need citizens’ participation to tackle social problems.” What follows is a list of three reasons why experts shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions on their own. It’s one of the [...]
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Collective action and participation
From TechPresident: “Indiana Univeristy’s Elinor Ostrom focuses her work on how people can go about creating rules for transactions around shared resources, or “commons,” that make collective action rewarding (enough) for everyone involved. And where she added a particularly new way of thinking to economics was to zero in on the economic transactions that take [...]
Top 'real world' read-write applications of 2008
There’s a good deal of useful stuff here for anyone with an interest in new conversational applications. The three that stand out for me are…. PatientsLikeMe TeachStreet OpenCongress The others are worth thinking about though. Mint, for example – in a year when finance-literacy is becoming very relevant indeed – aggregates a lot of personal [...]
Making participation a participation sport
Steph Gray asks a very good question: “…why aren’t advocates of public participation and engagement more successful in engaging the policymakers who design consultations?“