I recently spoke at the Public Policy Development and Evaluation Forum in Canberra (ACT) on the topic ‘Open source policy-making: using online participation to improve the policy development process‘:
- Exploring the use of online services in the stakeholder consultation process
- When are government consultation blogs effective?
- What is the future of www.australia.gov.au?
- A post-mortem of the 2020 summit online
- Case studies from the UK’s Ofcom, Queensland’s Getinvolved site, New Zealands Police Act Wiki, and any other examples that can be squeezed into 40 minutes of slides plus Q&A
I thought it might be a good idea to walk the talk by open-sourcing the speech itself. You can view the results here – please feel free to post your thoughts on the topic in the comments below.
We’re now putting together a brief discussion paper on these issues at http://policydevelopment.wikispaces.com/opensourcepolicy – please add yourself to the wiki if you’re interested in contributing.
Miriam Lyons is the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Development. Formerly the Policy Coordinator of New Matilda, Miriam has a long history of bringing policy ideas to new audiences, as the founding director of the Interface Festival of Ideas in Sydney, and director of the Ideas Program for the StraightOutof Brisbane Festival. Miriam has also worked as a freelance writer and a media development consultant in East Timor with the international NGO, Internews. Miriam was a participant in the 2020 Summit and was recently nominated in the Thinkers’ category of The Australian’s Emerging Leaders series.