This document discusses using digital engagement for community safety partnerships. It notes that technology is becoming more personal and accessible due to factors like internet access and user-friendly interfaces. There are three principles for digital engagement: engage people on their terms, not your own; online communities are real communities; and not everyone is offline. The document provides examples of objectives for digital engagement like crowdsourcing, knowledge sharing, and improving services. It emphasizes understanding why an organization wants to use digital engagement and having clear goals for what is trying to be achieved through participation.

1. Introducing digital engagement for community safety partnerships Dave Briggs Community Evangelist

6. Change is happening…

7. Communicate Play Work

11. Consumerisation of technology

12. Mainframes Minicomputers Microcomputers Web / Mobile

13. Smaller, more personal (and harder to control)

14. So: digital engagement

18. Made possible by:

19. Access to the internet Access to computing A nice user interface

20. Three principles

21. 1. Online communities are communities too!

24. 2. Engage people on their terms, not yours.

25. 3. Don’t assume that everyone is offline.

26. The toolkit

27. 1. Go where people are 2. Right tool, right crowd

38. You can also build your own

40. This stuff works

41. You must understand why you’re doing it though!

42. Think strategically

44. What are you trying to achieve? What are you asking people to do?

45. Change perceptions? Change behaviour? Improve services?

47. In summary:

48. The change is happening: deal with it Solve the participation deficit Know why you’re doing what you’re doing

49. Thank you for listening!