On May 12, nineteen senior leaders from 13 federal agencies and departments came together to offer ideas to the Open Government Directive on how best to create more participatory opportunities for citizens in the highest levels of government. Participants in the three-hour discussion were following up on a meeting in late March attended by 34 [...]
Porto Alegre, Brazil helped to pioneer the process of participatory budgeting twenty years ago. As the city faces the 20th anniversary of its first participatory budgeting process, reaction is mixed. Many residents feel that the government no longer appropriately values the input made by citizens in the budget process. “The government isn’t participating much. They’re [...]
CSC’s Pete Peterson posted this essay to City Journal Online about an amazing story currently taking place on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Edited out of the original essay is the fact that the volunteer effort was begun after a failed “civic engagement” effort led by the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources.
In February/March [...]