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Ep 41 - Mass digital participation, with Simon Wright
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:33:26
Publish Date: 2022-03-22 23:19:02
Description:

Introducing Simon Wright

When we make it easy for our communities to talk to us through quick surveys and web-based questionnaires, are we losing the opportunity for important and hard conversations?

Today’s guest, Simon Wright, explains how the limitations of our consultation mindset and the limitations of technical driven or expert driven conversations can cause us to miss out on political implications or moral implications when engaging with our communities.

There is power in open dialogue and discussion, but often organisations are talking to people through closed dialogues. But it’s only through those hard conversations, those brave dialogues, that we can uncover insights that otherwise we might not have expected.

Simon has a wealth of stories and experiences that he can draw on. He's a member on the expert advisory panel for the New Zealand Open Government Partnership and he is a partner at a firm called Public Engagement Projects, as well as being a teacher on digital engagement.

This episode is for anybody who is working in a policy shop and a government department that is trying to understand how to fit community participation into the policy process.

In today’s episode you’ll learn:

  • Why the ‘hub-and-spoke’ model of consultation causes disconnect and how we are moving away from it.
  • How digital tools can help us to reach more people in our communities and so bring forth new ideas and ways of thinking.
  • How we can step up our digital outreach to allow our community to reflect and bounce off each other instead of having a one way conversation with us.

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