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The Next Big Step: Integrating Face-to-Face
Deliberations with Web 2.0Janet D. Fiero, Ph.D.
Josh Chernila AmericaSpeaks
Campaigning Is Easy
• Many easy ways to get engaged: canvassing, phone banks, fundraisers
• Candidate interacts directly with the people
• People make their choices based on their values and their judgment of the candidate’s values & character
• There is a date certain when someone wins or someone loses
Governing is Hard
• Not clear how citizens can get engaged.
• No easy way to keep a link between the people and the President
• There is no date certain to drive decisions.
Declining Trust in Government
CITIZENS AS
1. Constituents/Customers
2. Citizens as decision-makers
Two Ways to Impact Public Trust
Changing the Way
Government Relates
to People
Strengthening Democracy Conference
Obama Memorandum on Open Government
• Transparency
• Collaboration
• Participation
AmericaSpeaks’ mission is to reinvigorate American democracy by engaging citizens in the
public decisions that most impact their lives
AmericaSpeaks Video
Tough Choices in Healthcare,
State of Maine, 2004
2 locations: Orono and Biddeford
Table Dialogue
Diverse Participants
Informed Dialogue
Facilitation & Event Support
1. Lead Facilitator
2. Area Facilitator
3. Table Facilitator
4. Floor Support• Technical
• Floor Managers
• Issue Experts
• Constituency Services
• Volunteers
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Participatory Technology
Wireless Computers
Polling Keypads
Participatory Technology
Wireless Computers
Polling Keypads
Theme Team & Reporting
America Moving Online
Democratizing Web
Rules of Engagement
1. Diverse representation
2. Informed participation
3. Facilitated deliberation
4. Shared priorities
5. Links to action
6. Large scale meetings
7. Sustaining citizen engagement
Fully integrate citizen voices into decision making so
engagement becomes the way the community does its
public business
Long Term Goal for Deliberative Democracy
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can
succeed."
President Abraham Lincoln
www.americaspeaks.org