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Making the Business Case for Public Engagement
At today’s session at the Science Communication conference by the British Science Association, Involve ran a session on how to make the business case for engagement. You can see the slides here: Involve presentation: making the case for public engagement View more … more » – Making the Business Case for Public Engagement
How politically engaged are we?
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have caught me tweeting from the launch of the ninth Audit of Political Engagement on Wednesday. The Audit is “an annual health check on our democratic system” published by the Hansard Society. … more » – How politically engaged are we?
Webinar 5: Organising people for power
Today, 27 April, we held the fifth webinar in our series on community engagement for the Creative Councils programme. In this session, Mark Parker explores what modern broad-based organising looks like in practice, where it has come from and how organising can contribute to reviving grassroots democracy. … more » – Webinar 5: Organising people for power
Power struggles: Beyond Accessibility
Some thoughts on how to run participation exercises which favour the least powerful. In a recent post I argued that if government-run participation is going to have a transformative effect on our society, we need to see it as a … more » – Power struggles: Beyond Accessibility
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Tagged citizens, communication, design, fun, influence, informal participation, integrity, jargon, participation methods, planning for real
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Reframing conflict
This post explores the challenges of conflict to effective participation. Should we reframe our approach to dealing with conflict in light of the localism agenda? A few weeks ago Involve and Consumer Focus hosted a seminar to explore ‘where next … more » – Reframing conflict
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Tagged citizen participation, community, localism, pathways through participation
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Power struggles: Why we need top-down and bottom-up
One of the best tools to overcome power inequality is bottom-up participation such as Community Organising. However, there is still a need for top-down participation too. Recently, I suggested that if participation is going to work towards a fairer and more … more » – Power struggles: Why we need top-down and bottom-up
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Tagged bottom-up, community organising, empowerment, equality, inequality, locality, participation, power, power struggles, top-down
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Engaging in bits and bytes
Edward Andersson discusses what digital technology means for engagement and what the strengths and weaknesses are of engaging online. A week ago I gave a talk at Government Digital Services on Digital and face to face engagement. This post is … more » – Engaging in bits and bytes
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Citizens at the heart of the new Sciencewise programme
This post is drawn from involve’s newsletter. You can sign up to the newsletter on the homepage. I wrote a couple of weeks ago announcing that we are joining forces with AEA Technology and the British Science Association to deliver … more » – Citizens at the heart of the new Sciencewise programme
Where next for localism and co-production?
On 15 March 2012, Involve co-hosted with Consumer Focus a seminar exploring ‘where next for localism and co-production?’ The event brought together a group of 27 individuals from national government, local government, the voluntary and community sector, the social innovation field, academia and think tanks … more » – Where next for localism and co-production?
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Tagged active citizenship, big society, co-production, community, event, localism, participation, pathways through participation
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Webinar 4: Making the Case for Engagement
Last week, we held the fourth webinar in our series on community engagement for the Creative Councils programme. In this session, Involve’s Deputy Director Edward Andersson, gave a very practical advice on how to make the case for engagement, including on how to measure and give … more » – Webinar 4: Making the Case for Engagement
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Tagged Creative Councils, economic case, local government, making the case, webinar, webinar series
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