Resources
New Publications from Open Government Directions
- Participation and Open Government Web Sites. Learn more about how federal agencies can meet the President’s open government goals on their new open government web site.
- Open Policy Making 101. 10 questions to ask before launching your online public consultation.
- Introducing Government Agencies to Web 2.0. What do agencies need to know about social media? When a visitor becomes community.
Resources for Federal Managers
- Open Government Recommendations from Federal Managers. Federal managers from more than 20 federal agencies came together in 2009 to develop recommendations for Open Government.
- A Manager’s Guide to Citizen Deliberation: IBM’s Center for the Business of Government released a practical guide for federal managers written by AmericaSpeaks. The aim of the guide is help shape public involvement practices and deepen understanding of public deliberation at the federal level.
Public Engagement Tools and Resources
- Case Studies from AmericaSpeaks and Ascentum. Learn more about how the public has come together to shape critical public decisions by reading case studies from AmericaSpeaks and Ascentum.
- Participate DB. ParticipateDB is a collaborative catalogue for online tools for participation (often referred online dialogue, online deliberation etc.).
- Resources from the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. If you are new to dialogue & deliberation, or if you have primarily worked within one particular stream of practice or with one or two specific models or techniques, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with the following resources.
- Participedia. Participedia aims to create and gather public knowledge to deepen democracy. Based on a wiki platform, its main content will be user-generated articles that will describe and assess participatory governance throughout the world.
Open Government Blogroll
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