It is amazing today how citizens can recognize their local diversity, culture, creativity, and innovation and run with it. While taking the steps to garner support from the community and pitch the idea to the city can be hard work, it can yield some truly awe-inspiring results.
It is amazing today how citizens can recognize their local diversity, culture, creativity, and innovation and run with it. While taking the steps to garner support from the community and pitch the idea to the city can be hard work, it can yield some truly awe-inspiring results.
Here at Engaging Cities, we’ve touched on virtual worlds and how governments are capitalizing on the opportunities within them a few times in the past. Slowly virtual worlds are becoming a place for government workers to form communities and collaborate on work as well as provide a forum for education and research.
Earlier this month the website challenge.gov went live to the public. A forum for citizen engagement, Challenge hopes to turn the typical participatory paradigm on its head. Bev Godwin, director of new media and citizen engagement at U.S. General Services Administration equates it to the next form of citizen engagement; going beyond participation to co-creation.
Earlier this month the website challenge.gov went live to the public. A forum for citizen engagement, Challenge hopes to turn the typical participatory paradigm on its head. Bev Godwin, director of new media and citizen engagement at U.S.
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