Dr Mark Elliott's (Collabforge) keynote to the City Planning, Civic Participation the Internet at Princeton University - 1 May 2009.
This presentation details how Collabforge worked with City of Melbourne to map the existing city planing process to develop a re-engineered process that leveraged collaboration and utilised cutting edge 'Web 2.0' solutions. Most notably, an open source wiki-based collaboration environment was developed in order to enable collaboration amongst the many City officers and stakeholders, as well as members of the general public during the public consultation period. The Future Melbourne project (www.futuremelbourne.com.au) recently won the Planning Institute of Australia (Victoria Division) Awards for Excellence, Local Government.
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1. Wikis & Web 2.0 for City Planning:
Transparent, Par,cipatory, Collabora,ve
Dr Mark EllioA, Director, Collabforge
City Planning Civic Engagement and the Internet
Center for Informa6on Technology Policy
Princeton, April‐May 2009
3. David Mayes, Manager Strategic Planning and Sustainability
mandate for a collabora,ve city plan
inspired by Wikipedia as collabora,ve process
Collabforge mapped the planning process
re‐engineered the process for a collabora,ve outcome
24. Future Melbourne covered on 40+ interna,onal
blogs & websites
“Could this be the beginning of par,cipatory governance?”
“Kudos City of Melbourne! AAen,on Melburnians: be sure
to have your say and take advantage of this excellent site so
what you think and feel the city should be like in the future is
accounted for in policy development“
“It's not hard to imagine why Melbourne has a reputa,on as a
vibrant and progressive city”
“I'd love to see the Mayor of my city on the front page of a wiki
asking for contribu,ons!”
39. New Collabora,ve Tools &
Social Processes
Par,cipatory Democracy
(extending representa,ve democracy)
Ci,zen
Innova,on
in
Governance
40. this type of innova,on can happen anywhere
needed:
awareness of opportunity & interest on part of
project sponsor
experienced prac,,oners ‐ either internally or
externally sourced
naviga,ng virtual community dynamics
needs careful, expert aAen,on
‐ this is a key risk
commitment, courage & crea,vity on part of
everyone involved
41. Self evident:
the Web (in some form or another) is here to stay
‐ be it seman,c, mobile, ubiquitous...
Web development is fast, cheap, easy
& replicable
‐ this puts power in the people’s hands