Hi Kevin,
That’s good. I’ll point out that, according to your FAQ’s only Ruchir is a moderator on this forum. You’re down as an admin (only). Just saying.
OK, So you’re saying
That’s good. Doing a review every 4 years is the usual commercial media approach. You’ve pinned this thread, hopefully that means we may be able to use its fixed position as the place where we can start co- designing the next stage of, not just this forum, but inter-relating (open government) projects which are scattered/fragmented around the English-speaking world. PLease! If anyone has anything you think is relevant to my list below, hit Reply and create your own post/list.
The lists will be either GLOBAL, NATIONAL or LOCAL.
OK, Global first.
The OGP projects incorporates Local and National govs and (often, International) civil groups
This is their brochureware.
This is their primary comms. It offers a comms service for any project/person, globally, to promote an open gov event or project.
This is their secondary comms. It addresses OGP Local Government members.
National.
(i’m no expert in the UK) but ours is one of Involve’s projects that attempts to offer an umbrella Nationally, just as the OGP project attempts to do Globally. The
democracynetwork is the main UK project I know of that attempts this.
Its intentions are inspiring.
designed to better support people to get to know and understand others in the (UK) space and identify opportunities for collaborative discussion.
Its implementation? Fail. One irony is that our opengovernment.gov.uk forum - an Involve funded project - doesn’t appear to collaborate with the umbrella at all. We can’t solve this situation by advocating to a government. We might be able to if you (Kevin, ), Chloe, Neisha, James, Max, Vanessa and your peers learn the community management business = how to collaborate. Mind you, we’ll need to have them agree on a shared bunch of tools beforehand.
Local.
After 7 years we have only one thread left in this forum that tries to bridge between a government’s official OGP meetings with its civil groups and this (supposedly) open civil space/ social network.
Enough. what Ive written is dense, I know. But I’m only writing it once, so if this forum gets deleted, no problem. I’ll leave you with one other UK approach, as its the longest running forum for people inside/between the UK gov silos. Where the OGP talks about MSF (MultiStakeholderForum) and “sharing”, they talk about OPDC (Government Project Delivery Community) and “delivering”.
Always useful to compare between an incoming culture and its (dying) predecessor.