Thinkpublic listed in this post a few interesting proposals to develop public participation. What about applying them to grants management?
Via InterActu (Hubert Guillaud) in French, merci.
publication of policy research in an accessible format
At the moment we don’t really know where information and evidence for policy comes from. Policy documents are notoriously hard to read but cover issues that are affect many of us and should be very interesting. We need to find a way of representing this information early on the process in a way that people want to interact with it.
members not customers
The idea of the ‘customer’ slows innovation by limiting what we expect from the users of our public services. We need to reconnect people with the services which they pay for and make them feel that they have ownership. A model of membership is perhaps more appropriate than that of a customer.
an opportunity to contribute at every interaction with government
We need to start to expect participation and to enable people to contribute at every interaction with government of public services. Learning from micro-volunteering, we need to examine the public interfaces of the public sector looking for moments when people have time to give, and concurrently we need to identify the tasks in the public sector that can be done by people outside the organisation.
make it easy
Government and public services should make it easy to register your opinion and for you to see the opinions of others on that issue. Government should let us know where its listening and how. Whether this is its own online forums or feeding back on articles in national press, we should not be at a loss as to how to contribute and we should know the extent of the influence of our contribution.
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