Future Melbourne On The Web

What are people saying? Join the conversation.

If you have posted a blog or are discussing the Future Melbourne plan online, post on the discussion page (see tab in upper right corner) to let us and others know - it also helps your Google ranking ;-).

Blogs

P2P Foundation

Future Melbourne: The Dawning of the Age of P2PGovernance

• "...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?"

planspark's photostream (Flickr)

WebStatistics

• "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."

Ken's e-learning blog

City of Melbourne uses a wiki to plan it's future

• "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."

puScic

Future Melbourne - posted 28 May 2008

• "Local government community consultation using a wiki."

hello.com.au

The future of Melbourne - have your say! - posted 28 May 2008

• "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."

Get Shouty

Beyond 2020 - posted 27 May 2008

• "Colour me impressed"

The Cosmopolitan Charlestonian

My Grandma Owned A Car - Melbourne Backcasting Future Planning - posted 23 May 2008

• "With a seriously participatory website behind them, FutureMelbourne? .com, the city invites direct public contribution through the site's Wiki platform."

Decide For Yourself

Melbourne, The Place To Be - Have Your Say! - posted 22 May 2008

• "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.' "

melbourne on transit

My Grandma owned a car - posted 20 May 2008

• "Transport academics and leaders talk about the future for Melbourne public transport (2 parts)."
• See also the comments.

!ReadWriteWeb

Wikis Are Now Serious Business - posted 19 May 2008

• "*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!"

LAUREL PAPWORTH - SOCIAL NETWORKS

Architecture 2.0: Australia's Innovation and Architecture strategies - posted 3 May 2008

• "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."

Australia: Politics Future Melbourne wiki Citizen Government - posted 29 April 2008

• "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?"

Purecaffine.com

So much to get my head around - posted 30 April 2008

• "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."

Gov Web2.0 showcase

A Local Government gets it - posted 29 April 2008

• "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."

Life in Chippendale

Future Melbourne wiki - posted 29 April 2008

• "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."

Notebookblog-eve

Have You Noticed..? - posted 16 April 2008

• "...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"

Skyscrapercity.com

Future Melbourne - the hunt for big ideas - thread started 16 May 2008

• "make Melbourne city council like Brisbanes a large one capable of building large projects and run PT."

The RiotACT

City of Melbourne uses wiki for collaborative planning - could work in Canberra? - thread started 29 April 2008

• "Could something like this work in Canberra? Who do we need to talk to to make this happen?"

Free Australia Wireless

Future Melbourne + public wireless planning - thread started 29 April 2008

• "...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."

The Source - Melbourne Water

Future Melbourne: the city plan that anyone can edit!

• "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."

Computerworld

Tech Insider, Government in a Wiki World, Part 4

• "Its objective is to stimulate insights into future directions that the City of Melbourne can pursue."

Melbourne divines future online

• "The government invited the community to discuss existing problems and propose initiatives for sustainability."