Auburn City (pop. 79,000) in the Australian state of New South Wales has just launched its “I Love Auburn City Because I Can Have My Say” website on the Bang the Table platform. The site uses Bang the Table’s “EngagementHQ” to solicit ideas and survey participants as the city heads towards development of its Strategic [...]
An interesting story out of the State of Victoria in Australia, where a leaked email seems to show that the state’s Planning Minister considered creating a rigged “public engagement” process as a way to scuttle a $260MM AU redevelopment project. As the article in the Herald Sun states, “The internal memo proposed that a sham [...]
This from Dr. Jim Fishkin of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy:
Next weekend, Jan 9-10, a civic non-partisan organization, Power2010 will hold a national face to face Deliberative Poll in London. The agenda comes from thousands of online submissions to their web site about how to improve the political system. A national online sample, recruited by [...]