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| + | #This is an effective way to collect tacit knowledge from people, by stimulating them to tell their stories to the world, on a collective blog. You can get high quality interesting responses. | ||
| + | #The multiple routes for submission worked, so bridging the digital divide. If you cannot access the web, use e-mail. If not, send a text. If all else fails, telephone and record a message. | ||
| + | #It doesn’t require as much work for the consulters as do discussion forums or even surveys. But it does require some attention. | ||
| + | #Publicity is needed to bring people to a site. This can be done through the media (from press releases to a launch by the Taoiseach), or by making people aware of the site when they visit their favourite on-line hangouts (messages in mailing lists or on-line games, or buying Google adwords so that when people search for ‘active citizenship’ they find the site). | ||
| + | #Copy-writing for the web takes skill and time. But without it, people will leave the site before even having a chance to submit a story | ||
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See Speech by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, T.D., at the Conference on the Future of the Community and Voluntary Sector: [http://www.activecitizen.ie/index.asp?locID=12&docID=5 http://www.activecitizen.ie/index.asp?locID=12&docID=5] | See Speech by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, T.D., at the Conference on the Future of the Community and Voluntary Sector: [http://www.activecitizen.ie/index.asp?locID=12&docID=5 http://www.activecitizen.ie/index.asp?locID=12&docID=5] | ||
Revision as of 14:24, 12 April 2007
The Wheel trial on active citizenship was the third and final trial. These trials are part of a wider research project on e-consultation, started in January 2004, by Queen's University Belfast, the University of Maynooth and Limerick Institute of Technology.
The Wheel case provided learning about what not to do when organising an E-Consultation.
Two very basic problems emerged to counteract the effectiveness of the consultation:
Insufficient resource allocation Complicated legal issue presented on an overly complicated web page
Contents
The Wheel Context
Process and planning
E-consultation design
Expectations for E-consultation
The Consulters
The Consultees
Consultation Data Generated
Outcomes from the e-consultation trial
Issues of participation
Issues of participation
Conclusion
- This is an effective way to collect tacit knowledge from people, by stimulating them to tell their stories to the world, on a collective blog. You can get high quality interesting responses.
- The multiple routes for submission worked, so bridging the digital divide. If you cannot access the web, use e-mail. If not, send a text. If all else fails, telephone and record a message.
- It doesn’t require as much work for the consulters as do discussion forums or even surveys. But it does require some attention.
- Publicity is needed to bring people to a site. This can be done through the media (from press releases to a launch by the Taoiseach), or by making people aware of the site when they visit their favourite on-line hangouts (messages in mailing lists or on-line games, or buying Google adwords so that when people search for ‘active citizenship’ they find the site).
- Copy-writing for the web takes skill and time. But without it, people will leave the site before even having a chance to submit a story
See Speech by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, T.D., at the Conference on the Future of the Community and Voluntary Sector: http://www.activecitizen.ie/index.asp?locID=12&docID=5
