Workshop2005
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A Practical workhop on using e-consultation, 28 April 2005
At
Queen's University Armagh Campus
39, Abbey Street, Armagh
Workshop Resource | How to get there
Program
| 10:15 | Welcome & Coffee |
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| 10:45 | Introduction, Lecture Room |
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| 10:45 |
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Achievements around the world, and why we started to look at e-consultation | by John Morison |
| 10:55 |
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Consultation across Ireland, findings from questionnaires and focus groups. | by Michael Murray |
| 11:15 |
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Summary of e-consultation technologies, matching them to consultation tasks. | by David Newman |
| E-consultation technologies and experiences | |||
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| Computer suite | Lecture room | Seminar room | |
| 11:30 | Online dialogue. Discussion forums, e-mail lists, and online chat. |
Tax credit e-consultation in NI by Patricia Donald, Advice NI |
Lunch sitting 1 |
| 12:00 | Measuring needs and opinions. Online surveys. |
E-consultation in the UK local e-democracy programme.
by Stephen Robinson, Bristol City Council. |
Lunch sitting 2 |
| 12:30 | Online writing. Blogs, wikiwiki webs and group report writing. |
E-consultation among young scots.
by Ella Smith, International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University, Edinburgh. |
Lunch sitting 3 |
| Designing an e-consultation | |||
| 13:00 | Group A (using Web IQ) | Group B (using Zing) | |
| 13:45 | Conclusions, Lecture Room |
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| 14:15 | Large scale e-consultation in America. by Lars Hasselblad Torres, America Speaks, by video-conferencing. |
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After the formal end of the workshop, feel free to stay on to try out technologies, or to talk about your own consultations.
E-consultation technologies and experiences
Three sessions in the computer suite, giving hands-on experience on selected technologies, will run in parallel with three talks about experiences on e-consultation.Participants can switch between technical and experience sessions,or choose to take out one time slot for lunch.
Designing e-consultation
The final session takes participants through an agenda meeting on designing an e-consultation. This will make use of e-meeting tools: Web IQ in the computer suite and Zing in the lecture room. So it is simultaneously a session learning an e-consultation technology, but being used by participants to reflect on e-consultation.
The consultation topic can be chosen by participants who wish to run consultation later in the year. By focussing on particular cases, we can encourage participants to come up with concrete suggestions that will benefit both consulters and consultees.
Concluding plenary
Everyone comes back together to compare their experiences and identify:
- Possibilities for small-scale e-consultation experiments.
- Possibilities for e-consultation trials.
- What we, as researchers, can do to help practitioners make e-consultation practical.
