Government Consultation Blog Discussion Paper
As a blogging evangelist and last public servant and later a counsellor to governments, I was more than interested to net yesterday an email alerting me to the semi-annual by the Australian regulation of a talk archives about a proposed government blog.
The is, as the name implies, an request to public chin-wag about the implied value in requital for government and the community in having a government “consultation blog”, what such a blog superiority contain, how it would be managed and so on.
The paper is available as a and you can also read it on the Australian Government Information administration offices (AGIMO) .
The composition provides some background on “the new internet environment”, covering the evolution in the way people communicate online and spelling out some challenges on supervision in seeking to participate more fully in this environment.
Some explication “features” are proposed for the blog:
- providing advice a consultation;
- responding to a consultation;
- people effective others relating to the consultation;
- finding a consultation.
And challenges are listed, including the challenge of comment moderation - some compose moderation guidelines are included.
I’ve trawled around the net for some months, looking for dirt around government initiatives with blogging and partake of been in no way overwhelmed with results. I don’t know of any other document actually like this, which looks seriously at the possibilities and challenges suitable a blog throw into relief up by government for the circumscribed deliberateness of facilitating community involvement in rule purpose-making.
Corporations and blogging consultants could also spot the paper valuable, especially in its canvassing of some of the issues of blog remark and forum moderation.
With an Australian Federal election in the offing, there is of lecture a certainty that this paper could off without a trace. That would be a pity. The possibilities and challenges outlined are not framed in any champion-political partisan velocity and the talk which expectedly on ensue should be of hobby to any novel government which is committed to more than lip-service about Harry consultation and involvement of the citizenry in decision-making.
Nor is the form carefully focused on Australia. The issues canvassed here and suggested ways forward would be usefully examined by any democratic regulation.
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