Future Melbourne On The Web
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Blogs
Susan Crawford Blog long term planning: NYC - posted 21 December 2009.- ...if I were thinking about NYC's future, I'd look to what Melbourne is carrying off - collaborative long-term planning, using online tools where possible.
- "I like it when Government uses social media to stay in contact with citizen voter. Makes me think they may come up to something like 'real time' engagement with us."
- "The City of Melbourne has made some bold steps but I think there are many more ahead."
- "This is a wonderful example of a successful online consultation process in Australia."
- "It is a really positive sign that a City Council should make such a strong committment to public participation that it undertakes such an innovative initiative. This demonstrates an openess to innovation that is sadly lacking in many of our public institutions."
- "Future Melbourne has wisely taken inspired from past wiki successes, most notably Wikipedia. Be bold, the site's directions insists"
- "The City of Melbourne will host a breakfast event with speakers reporting on the Future Melbourne project."
- "...could this be the beginning of participatory governance, p2p governance or WikiGovernance? where the public relies less on the elected representatives and is more able to directly engage in the creation and implementation of policy?"
- "Just saw that the public phase only started May 17, according to this blog post. It remains to be seen what the June numbers will look like and how much outside participation this project can attract."
- "The wiki allows individuals to comment on, discuss and edit the Future Melbourne draft plan, which will eventually become the City of Melbourne's long-term strategy plan."
- "Local government community consultation using a wiki."
- "Kudos City of Melbourne! Attention Melbournites: be sure to have your say and take advantage of this excellent site so what you think and feel the city should be like in the future is accounted for in policy development."
- "Colour me impressed"
- "With a seriously participatory website behind them, FutureMelbourne.com, the city invites direct public contribution through the site's Wiki platform."
- "Being a Gemini city it's not hard to imagine why Melbourne has a reputation as a vibrant and progressive city. A city I am proud to call my home. ... 'Now the draft plan has been made available online as a "wiki" or collaborative website where everyone is invited to log-on, comment and contribute their ideas.' "
- "Transport academics and leaders talk about the future for Melbourne public transport (2 parts)."
- See also the comments.
- "*Discussing Public Policy* - For all the hot air offered by democratically elected governments about incorporating citizen input into decision making, wikis are emerging as an interesting way to try to make the process of gathering such input real. The city of Melbourne, Australia launched an official wiki today to discuss the future of the city. I'd love to see the Mayor of my city on the front page of a wiki asking for contributions!"
- "Does Australia have anything similar to this with regards to Innovation and Cross Media and Architecture? Makes our Future Melbourne town planning wiki look less than innovative, no? Ah well."
- "I'm just really bookmarking this wiki for my own future reference. Pass it on to those Melbournites that a) might want to be involved and b) might have a clue, willya?"
- "Another thing I stumbled across the other day was Future Melbourne, a City of Melbourne council-run collaborative wiki to put together a plan for the future of Melbourne: Also posted on The RiotACT."
- "If it is successful and I expect it should be. I hope other Governments in Australia, on all levels, local, state and federal will look at using wikis or similar tools to provide non traditional methods of consultation."
- "Here's an idea for getting the community behind Sustainable Sydney 2030: stick it on a wiki so we can collectively write and therefore own the document, much like this initiative from the City of Melbourne."
- "...the City is trying to encourage people to participate personifies the Web 2.0 modality and spirit! They will present the new draft plan as a wiki! Have a look at Future Melbourne, and join in with your ideas. Look at the way the Future Melbourne website is trying to link all the information together."
Forums
melbournebeats.com futuremelbourne wiki - thread started 19 May 2008- "i can see this being abused.. serious things being edited out in place of rediculousnesss"
- "make Melbourne city council like Brisbanes a large one capable of building large projects and run PT."
- "Could something like this work in Canberra? Who do we need to talk to to make this happen?"
- "...I would strongly encourage you to get involved in this project, particularly the discussions on "Pathway 4.4 - Make Melbourne a wired city" and promote Free Australia Wireless as an enabler of this outcome, for the creation of public wifi hotspots - or rather in our case, the slightly more ambitious creation of city-wide mesh networks."
Press
The Collaboration Project Future Melbourne- "The opinions and thoughts of the Australian public were gathered and harnessed using wiki technology in order to improve upon the ten year strategic vision plan the government wants to undertake for the city of Melbourne."
- "Future Melbourne Open this link in new window is a bold vision for the city's future that will affect everybody who visits, lives and works in the municipality."
- "Its objective is to stimulate insights into future directions that the City of Melbourne can pursue."
- "The government invited the community to discuss existing problems and propose initiatives for sustainability."
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