Engagement practitioners, Public Decisions, have just released the results of their survey on public engagement. Please go here to sign up for a free download, but here are the basic themes of the study (quoted from Public Decisions’ email):
1. A large majority of respondents are familiar with deliberation as an engagement technique. There is also [...]
A recent essay in the New York Times highlights some of the pormise and challenge of online civic engagement in the United States. Entitled, “Athens on the ‘Net”, essayist, Anand Giridharadas discusses some of the recent steps the Obamaa Administration has taken in increasing transparency and public engagement through the White House website.
Giridharadas allows that [...]
The tech blog, Ars Technica, has an interesting review of a new Pew Internet and American Life Project study on the impact of the web on civic participation. Finding, among other things, that there is a positive correlation between household income and civic engagement - “the well to-do and well-educated are more likely than those [...]