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Blogged at: http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=28 Listening to the City - Case Study http://dowire.org/wiki/Listening_to_the_City I plan to highlight an international e-democracy case study each week from the collection commissioned by the UK Local E-democracy National Project. We will start with Listening to the City. Here is the summary about this excellent online consultation event: Executive Summary In July 2002, The Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York,the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in association with non- profits Web Lab and America Speaks created Listening to the City Online Dialogues with a budget of $60,000. The dialogues focused on two things; plans for redevelopment of the World Trade Center site and the surrounding business district and neighbourhoods of Lower Manhattan plus the creation of a permanent memorial for the victims and heroes of 9/11. The goal of the online discussions was to compliment the 5000 person- to-person consultation and provide a means for citizens to have their views heard and reflected in the decision-making process.During the two-week discussion, 808 participants working in 26 parallel discussion groups (half facilitated and half unfacilitated), posted more than 10,000 messages and responded to 32 polling questions. Listening to the City had an impact on guidelines for new designs, the invitations to world-class architects to participate in a design competition, and the final design. A final poll found that 84% of the participants said they were satisfied with the dialogue and they indicated the chance to have their say and the mix of people and perspectives were the top reasons. Website: http://dialogues.listeningtothecity.org The full case study: http://dowire.org/wiki/Listening_to_the_City All case studies and briefs: http://dowire.org/wiki/UK_highlights ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - Skype/MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift Join Democracies Online: http://dowire.org Start an Issues Forum: http://e-democracy.org/if *** Past Messages, to Subscribe: http://dowire.org *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** New RSS XML Feed Available: *** http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/maillist.xml
