Dec 13, 2016 | Advisory committee, Citizen committees, Collaborating, Community Governance
End 2016. Time to assess where we’ve been, and how it’s gone. How did our approach to key areas of work go? Thinking to the we, the group, the team, the partners, the citizens, how did collaborations go? If they’re going nowhere, how could they be improved?...
Oct 12, 2016 | Citizens' juries, Collaborating, Deliberative, Planning, Tech tools for engagement
Deliberative democracy enthusiasts in my world are in an exciting collaborative space this month. Open State. The 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas giving energy and focus to a future democracy and society. ‘Exploring citizen voice and the notion that government...
Jul 7, 2016 | Collaborating, Community Engagement, Stakeholder engagement, Water
Participation is a term that means a lot to me as a community engagement professional. Here’s a fresh way of looking at it. New ways, new people Today many water companies and local governments are grappling with sharing their business planning: • in new ways...
Dec 22, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Collaborating, Community Engagement, Local government, Participatory budgeting, People, place & governance, Planning, Rate capping
Christmas 2015. Presents piling up under people’s desks at work after lunch-time shopping. No doubt some won’t quite hit the mark. But it’s the thought that counts. When government spending doesn’t hit the mark it’s different. If I said...
Oct 27, 2015 | Collaborating, Health, It's cultural!, Water
[Setting: Readings Bookshop, Carlton] [Event: Launch of ‘Plastic Water, the social and material life of bottled water’ by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race, MIT Press, 2015] Emily Potter: Annie is the perfect person to launch this book. She is...
Nov 28, 2014 | Citizens' juries, Collaborating, People, place & governance
‘I come from a place there wasn’t any democracy. This is a really big influence for me. I also feel strongly that democracy is more than just turning up to vote.’ Gail Fairlamb is Director of Participation and Partnerships in South Australia’s...
