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27 March 2007

The International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making

I am pleased to announce the launching this week of the NSF-supported (via the Center for Technology and Governance at SUNY) International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making. We will be meeting 4 times over the coming year, with the Program on Networked Governance will be hosting the opening meeting of the working group at the Kennedy School this Friday/Saturday. The initial component of the meeting is public (see details below). The overarching questions motivating the working group’s mission will be (a) how to evaluate the policy and other social impacts of online citizen consultation initiatives aimed at influencing actual government decision making, and (b) how the optimal design of such initiatives is affected by cultural, social, legal and institutional context. There will be a variety of outputs from our work, aimed at both academia and the policy world, including a report evaluating the policy and design issues with respect to online deliberation, and a book.

Practicing what we preach, ideas/suggestions on what we should pursue should be posted here, with links to work and resources in this area. I will make sure that anything (reasonable) posted enters the discussion in some fashion (with credit, of course).

The event this Friday:

Peter Shane (Ohio State University) & Stephen Coleman (University of Leeds)
Launching the International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making
12:00-1:30, March 30, 2007
Location: Bell Hall (Fifth floor Belfer building, KSG)

Welcoming remarks will be offered by Valerie Gregg, Assistant Director of Development, Digital Government Research Center, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California and Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis Chair in Law, Ohio State University. A keynote address will be presented by Stephen Coleman, Professor of Communication, University of Leeds, who will be discussing "Future Research Directions in Public Online Consultation."

International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making

US Co-Chair:
Peter Shane (Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies, Ohio State University)

International Co-Chair:
Stephen Coleman (Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds, UK)

Working group members:

Steven Balla (George Washington University)
Patrizia Bertini (European Internet Accessibilità Observatory, Italy)
Andrew Chadwick (Royal Holloway College University of London, UK)
Sungsoo Hwang (PhD Candidate University of Pittsburgh)
David Lazer (Program on Networked Governance, Harvard University)
Jeffrey Lubbers (Washington College of Law, American University)
Laurence Monnoyer-Smith (University of Technology Compiègne, France)
Beth Noveck (New York Law School)
Kerrie Oakes (PhD Candidate Griffith University, Australia)
Oren Perez (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Polona Pičman (Štefančič University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Vincent Price (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania)
Alicia Schatteman (PhD Candidate State University of NJ at Newark)
Peter Strauss (Columbia University)
Scott Wright (De Montfort University, UK)

Posted by David Lazer at March 27, 2007 9:17 AM

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