agree with Matt and co-author Britt Glaser, after having seen a beta version of the system, that this could be a killer application for public participation in policy making . Tags: P2P Public Policy P2P Politic Via Matt Cooperrider : This new paper examines the potential for a social network platform that empowers citizens to manage government .

Kinda cool that companies are now posting internal policies publicly . Sun Guidelines on Public Discourse  [link] (original from 2005 elsewhere) Also  [link]   Media companies: For Journalists entering into public debate  [link] Chartered Institute of Public Relations Social Media Guidelines  [link]   Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on.

In order to maximize availability of the voting system, the city established 178 voting points around the city, including a mobile unit consisting of a bus with Internet access and carried out an extensive public relations campaign. Sadly, the case study does not discuss the nature of the public works projects, the nature of the winners, or evaluate whether the government actually followed through and built them. (The I’m always interested in metaGovernment. That’s not where a politician chats on Twitter or does broadcast YouTube videos or widgets for fund raising

Search engines like Google have some good reasons for keeping their algorithms confidential—if they were public, manipulators could swamp searchers with irrelevant results. Having made a similar case for a “ public option ” in the case of health insurance, I like this line of argument, but I think Doctorow is underestimating the barriers to entry . We can imagine a public, open Is there an alternative to the Google search monopoly ? Frank Pasquale:

People risk their livelihoods to try and innovate for public good, and there’s no shame in trying to make some money out of it. It just doesn’t seem sensible to have such clunky systems when it’s desperately important to improve public services and reduce costs at the same time. The aim would be to bring together people working in public bodies with social media developers and suppliers, and with those working in the hyperlocal The Crowdsourced Council event earlier this week was for me interesting at three levels. First for the idea expressed in the

One may think: but it’s not „theirs“ – I mean, who owns the public streets? Tags: P2P Commons P2P Public Polic Silke Helfrich of the German “CommonsBlog” writes: I had the opportunity to do the introductory talk of the World Commons Forum held on 29 and 30 of September in Salzburg. I

the highest possible value for public investments? First of all, public authorities should make a high priority to establish a fully functional broadband infrastructure, which also reaches the rural majority, and without which scalable cooperation is impossible. Second, public authorities have an important educational role regarding the commons and the public good. The following is a draft editorial I would like to see published in the mainstream press. In the meantime, here’s an overview of how a social innovation policy could mitigate the effects of the

The use of Web-based collaborative communities and tools can use labour, intelligence and interest to develop policy collaboratively, allowing the interests of the public to be better represented and engaged. Most importantly, an open source wiki-based collaboration environment enabled collaboration amongst the City officers and stakeholders, as well as members of the general public, during the public participation period.” Three of our friends, Mark Elliott, Darren Sharp and Matt Cooperrider, have published a great case study on participative policy making, describing the experience of Melbourne, i.e.

Via Marco Fioretti : “Two senators of the Italian Democratic party, Vincenzo Vita and Luigi Vimercati, have written a law proposal which defends Net Neutrality and promotes non proprietary formats and software in public administrations and Universities. method: they put the whole text online on a public wiki, where everybody What is good, regardless of one’s political opinions, is the method: everybody will be able to add comments, suggest amendments and so on.

Earth Rights Democracy : Public Finance based on Early Christian Teachings. Tags: P2P Public Policy P2P Spiritualit Article: Alanna Hartzok. Christianity and Human Rights Conference. Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. November