Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008
When I was at Mesh ‘08, I had the chance to catch Mark Kuznicki and Sean Howard’s presentation detailing the progress they had made in developing a new way to do public consultations with Metrolinks utilizing a series of unconferences called “Transit Camps” with associated website and branding. I’ve written about the session previously on my blog, but wanted to capture it here as well. You can see the slidedeck below. We’ll be following the progress of the Metronauts closely. It’s something that I think would really work well in tandem with the current online public consultation process (can’t find a link at the moment) for Ottawa’s new Transit plan.
Posted in General, Public Consultation
Tagged as metronauts , Public Consultation
Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008
The Mayor’s Taskforce on E-Government report was recently made public and posted on an Igloo-powered social network at http://ottawa.taskforcereport.ca/. If you haven’t read through it yet, I would encourage you to do so and provide your comments. A number of the ideas and examples highlighted in the report could easily be taken on by the community.
It was nice to see that they highlighted a map-based problem reporting tool that exist in several other jurisdictions; something I’ve been working at in some of my spare time over a few weekends. FixIt Ottawa should be out soon as soon as I hear back from the City (ironically enough) on getting some ward boundary polygons. You can grab a copy a copy of the report here.
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Tagged as egovernment , egovt , mayor , report , taskforce
