Presented at ShropCamp, 19/4/11

1. Micro-participation
Dave Briggs
Shropcamp April 2011
Tuesday, 19 April 2011

2. The problem: there are
too few people doing
too much
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3. Avoiding: doing the
wrong things righter
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4. Micro-participation?
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5. A democratic version
of micro-volunteering
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6. “participation at the
convenience of
participants”
(Jennifer Cowley, Ohio University)
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7. “Serious stuff doesn’t
have to be boring”
(Me, a few minutes ago)
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8. In other words:
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9. Stop tackling 21st
century problems with
19th century
mechanisms!
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10. Or:
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11. Government needs to
engage people on their
terms
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12. Or:
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13. I don’t have time to be
a councillor, but I still
want to help!
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14. Micro-participation can
be online or off
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15. (but the web’s a great
platform!)
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16. It’s also a matter of
message as well as
medium
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17. Some good (online)
examples:
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18. Short term, like
reporting
(FixMyStreet etc)
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19. Mass collaboration
activity (like translating
Facebook)
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20. New ways of delivering
services (like the
GoodGym)
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21. Making consultation
quick, and easy (like
LetsTalkCentral)
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22. Making meetings more
accessible (like South
Yorkshire Police)
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23. Councillors asking for
residents views via a
blog before a meeting
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24. Fundamentally:
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25. Micro-participation
makes government less
boring
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26. Anyone have any ideas?
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27. Anyone want to take
them forward?
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28. Let’s keep talking:
www.microparticipation.com
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