Author Don Tapscott on the growing influence of public participation, 4 October [1]
"At its broadest, non-discriminatory access to data means that any person can access the data at any time without having to identify him/herself or provide any justification for doing so." Sunlight Foundation, August 11 [2]topic
Data alone is not sufficient for problem-solving, but an involved community informed with data just might be, John Tolva, July 2010 [3]topic
Open Philanthropy: A Modest Manifesto, Lucy Bernholz, 3/15/2010 [4] / forum
Crisis in policymaking for people and planet demands new approach to policymaking that gives citizens a greater say in decisions that affect them, 27/01/2010 [5]
2009
Developing the Open City, 15 October 2009 [6]topic
How long is your city's tail? by John Geraci, October 7 [7]topic
The Three Laws of Open Government Data, 30 September 2009, David Eaves
2008
Not Just Peak Oil, But “Peak Hierarchy,” Too? December 4 [8]
"The best mechanism to confront the challenge of climate change are not market mechanisms, but conscious, motivated, and well organized human beings endowed with an identity of their own." Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, November 28, 2008
"In this negotiation process towards Copenhagen, it is fundamental to guarantee the participation of our people as active stakeholders at a national, regional and worldwide level, especially taking into account those sectors most affected, such as indigenous peoples who have always promoted the defense of Mother Earth." Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, November 28, 2008 topic
"...his (Obama's) only real hope in dealing with the tremendous challenges the country (world) faces will be to harness the collective ingenuity of citizens on a massive scale. In other words, he must enlist a level of participation in generating and acting on innovative solutions that has no obvious parallel in history." Anthony D. Williams, wikinomics, November 7 2008 / topic
A Wiki for the Planet: Clay Shirky on Open Source Environmentalism, wired.com, August 20, 2008
"We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?" And I'm betting the answer is yes." Clay Shirky at a Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008. / Inspiring Quotes 2
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2012
"Finland is about to start using crowdsourcing to create new laws", Sep 20, 2012 [9]
2010
Designing for Democracy Consultation using a wiki, December 08 [10]
7 finalists of the Reinhard-Mohn Prize 2011 “Vitalizing Democracy” announced by Bertelsmann Foundation, October 7 [11]
Draft Declaration - Co-creating an open declaration on public services 2.0, October 6, to be presented at the ministerial conference in Malmo 18-20 November, 2009 [13] Comment and input to make it better! Furthermore, if you have specific suggestion that you want to include, you can directly edit the supporting document - see Europe links under Community involvement place
White House announces Open Government Website, Initiative, May 21 [15]place
we20 - the people’s G20, announces the launch of its website at we20.org, enabling individual people and groups anywhere in the world to host their own G20 summits, March 27, 2009 - [16]
2008
The City of Spokane is seeking applicants for a citizen task force that will help create a strategic action plan to identify and address the impacts of climate change and energy security on the City, February 11. The citizen task force will lead the strategic planning effort, supported by work groups and technical assistance from city staff and other experts. [17]News USA
2007
April 12 2007 - Peter Singer keynote speaker at at Port Phillip Speaks Community Summit, Saturday April 28 2007. Singer, who was nominated by Time magazine in 2005 as one of the world’s top 100 influential people, will talk about building sustainability, both on an environmental and community level. Port Phillip Online / News Australia, Wellbeing
