Posts in category Participation

As part of the Australian Government’s APS Innovation Week 2012, G2R takes a look behind GovJam, happening around the world in June 2012.

How ready are citizens to be part of a more connected public space? Where is the UK heading in citizen participation? Ahead of CITIZEN2012 in London, conference organiser Jeffrey Peel – with guest speakers Andy Williamson of Future Digital and David Moody of Kana – discuss building the democratic commons, including tools and trends in next-generation government/citizen engagement.

In the countdown to the OGP2012 forum in Brasilia, Tiago Peixoto from the World Bank Institute’s ICT4Gov program discusses the value, opportunities and challenges of participatory budgeting.

April 2012 will see the inaugural Open Government Partnership forum of 54 nations in Brasilia, as well as the OGP/NASA International Space Apps Challenge with …

In this episode, we chat with Maurits van der Vlugt, one of the co-founders of Australia’s Bushfire Connect service on the power of the crowd …

Hear from Michael P McDonald and Micah Altman of the Public Mapping Project, which is an organization that is using open source software to enable …

Kevin Curry, founder of CityCamp, talks about Brigade, the new civic tech organizing program he’s heading up for Code for America that seeks to energise …

Join us for a conversation with David Eaves about International Open Data Day, and his best advice on how to organize a hackathon – including …

Join us as we chat with Lucy Chambers from the Open Knowledge Foundation in London.  As well as the work of the Foundation, we discuss …

Join us as we chat with Pia Waugh, the organiser of last weekend’s GovCamp Australia, held in Canberra.  The gathering brought together a range of …