Jul 21, 2016 | Citizens' juries, Deliberative, Local government, People, place & governance
A great night at Victorian Facilitators’ Network (VFN) this week, exploring deliberative democracy. VFN is fertile soil for us Victorian facilitators with seeds sown, watered and nurtured month by month. There is no membership, just a place for everyone. VFN is a...
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...
Apr 19, 2016 | Community Engagement, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Planning, Sustainability, Translating the scientific stuff, Walking, Water
Melbourne on the Front Foot! Want Melbourne to be green and healthy into the future? Interested in the built fabric of the city, the magic of planning? Looking for a fun, friendly Saturday afternoon walk? Annie Bolitho facilitates discussion about the ideas...
Mar 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
From what I hear, there’s a lot of discussion in local government about rate capping right now. Everyone has seen the list of Councils seeking exemption. The Essential Services Commission (ESC) & Community Engagement The ESC, described by an opposition MP as...
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...
Sep 21, 2015 | Advisory committee, Citizen committees, Community Governance, Local government, People, place & governance, Planning, Terms of reference
When you’re a council searching for a workable, enduring approach to place-based governance, it’s too easy to find yourself back where you started. In research on community governance I learned there’s no one way, no right way. Every place expresses itself...
Aug 11, 2015 | Community Governance, Deliberative, Local government, Participatory budgeting
Nobody would pretend the insistent and persistent don’t influence local government. At a council meeting you see the lady in the front row you saw at the last meeting, and at the one before that. She takes out her crochet. You put a strategy out to consultation and...
Aug 7, 2015 | Deliberative, It's cultural!, Planning
As a bike rider, I’m impressed by the force of the road. As a designer and facilitator of citizens’ juries, I enjoy thinking about complexity, multiple interests and power. I don’t think there’s a citizens’ jury on the force of the road coming up any time soon. But...
Jul 22, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Community Engagement, Deliberative, Participatory budgeting
When it comes to familiarising with the nuts and bolts of participatory budgeting, you’ve got your work cut out. First step web search. Lots on the reasons why you’d do participatory budgeting. It’s a great way to ….. But where’s the practical info? Is...
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