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Beyond Conventional Consultation

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 Workforce Risk
The Projected Size of the BC Public Service by 2016

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 What can we do?

• Policy judgement
• Co-creation, crowdsourcing
• Social Innovation
 What will it get us?

• Needs will better match resources

• We can leverage productivity beyond
government’s walls
• Communities can self organize to solve
problems with less or without government
 Why does technology matter?

• Extends our reach--time and space

• The audience is there, and people are
talking
• We can tell stories that spread
• We can aggregate, sort and search input
and information like never before
• We can build community
Opportunities
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Stuff that inspires us

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Inspiration
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Peer to Patent
Wiki Policy
Open Data
Community Support
Listening
 Challenges
• Digital divide is real--skills as well as
access
• Technology helps build buzz--but its true
deliberative power is limited
• Online engagement has to carefully
positioned--it has to make sense as a
channel
• Data and records management
 Discussion
• What principles should drive this work?
• How should we measure our success?
• How can we partner up?
• Can someone please explain how to
operationalize open data?
David Hume
Executive Director, Citizen Engagement
Workforce Planning and Leadership Secretariat
Ministry of Citizen Services
David.Hume@gov.bc.ca

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