Bill Brown's List: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Sociology is both topically and methodologically a very broad discipline. Its traditional focuses have included social stratification, social class, social mobility, religion, secularisation, law, and deviance. As all spheres of human activity are sculpted by social structure and individual agency, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to further subjects, such as health, military and penal institutions, the Internet, and even the role of social activity in the development of scientific knowledge

The DEAD consultation paradigm
21st Century Dialogue is a boutique business, specialising in community engagement that maximises opportunities for inclusiveness and deliberation through small group interaction and high technology. Initiatives are well structured and highly supported with experienced, quality personnel.

The 21st Century Dialogue community engagement methodology is unique in Australi

kellog evaluation using logic maps 

COMMUNITY LEAD SCHOOL REFORM
The Annenberg Institute adopted its current mission in 1998: "to develop, share, and act on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in schools serving disadvantaged children."

This website is a place where we can come together to connect and grow as a community. This site is a space for gathering practitioners, researchers, scholars, policy analysts and policy makers, elected officials, trainers, consultants, artists, activists and students from all of the various streams of practice that exist in this emerging field.

QGC Community Committees

QGC recognises the importance of building long-term, enduring relationships with communities directly and indirectly affected by its current and future operations. At the centre of our consultation and engagement approach is the establishment of the QGC Community Committees throughout the Surat Basin, along the QCLNG export pipeline and for the proposed LNG facility near Gladstone.

QGC Community Committees provide a forum for transparent two-way dialogue between QGC and representatives of the communities that are directly or indirectly impacted by QGC’s construction and operational activities.

BEN ROBERTS Web 2.0 applied to political process 

HOW TO ENGAGE BOTTOM UP 

DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY ARTICLE 

Our team is experienced, innovative and committed to results.

Ascentum’s team includes some of the leading minds in social media and public participation in Canada. From conferences to workshops, to national and international projects and initiatives, our team is asked to provide their experience, perspective and valuable lessons learned.

eliberative democracy is one of the major growth areas in contemporary political theory and social science, and ANU claims what is possibly the world's largest concentration of deliberative democracy scholars. Many of the world's leading deliberative democrats have spent time with us. The 'Global Governance' in our title emphasizes research directions that encompass transnational democracy and democratization, though research on democratic theory, local and national deliberation, and the micropolitics of deliberative forums also flourishes.

The Center for Deliberative Democracy, housed in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®

ince 1994, our non-partisan, non-profit has built local-up democracy and community online. From neighborhood forums that build real community to big city political dialogues, we invite you to simply contact us to start a new forum with us.

Universal civility rules (no name calling, local scope, etc.) and volunteer local facilitators make the difference.

The NCI Charrette System™ is more than the charrette.
It is a design-based, accelerated, collaborative project management system that spans the entire pre-construction period. It is a proven, flexible, three-step framework that can be customized for your project. The NCI Charrette System™ is used by public and private planners, designers, architects, developers and community activist to use for:
Sustainable community and building design
Regional and comprehensive planning
Master planning
Transportation/infrastructure planning
Code/policy writing
Development projects

IAP2 Australasia promotes the values and leading practices associated with involving the public in decisions that impact their lives. IAP2 Australasia is a not for profit association advancing the practice of community engagement and delivering member support to over 800 members.

An independent tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization formed in collaboration with the Kettering Foundation, the Institute helps citizens around the world to transform their conflictual or destructive relationships and to design and implement sustainable change processes

Viewpoint Learning engages the public and other stakeholders in dialogues that build trust and improve decision-making. Viewpoint Learning's range of special-purpose dialogues dig deeper than ordinary conversation. Our dialogues bring differing perspectives to bear to allow leaders to broaden the range of options, anticipate obstacles and build support for difficult decisions.

Our methods work because when engaged in serious dialogue - whether in businesses or the corporate sector - people's views change. People develop trust and move beyond their own self-interest to higher levels of insight, judgment, responsibility and commitment.

Viewpoint Learning's dialogues yield results in businesses and in the public sector:

This 72-page article by John Gaventa and Gregory Barrett was published in 2010 by the Institute for Development Studies. Over the last two decades, the idea that citizen engagement and participation can contribute to improved governance and development outcomes has been mainstreamed in development policy and discourse. Yet despite the normative beliefs that underpin this [...]