patcon
commented
7 years ago Great idea! If you'd like, it might be worth stealing a trope from the open source community, called "awesome lists". Basically, communities were feeling ill-equipped to understand the landscape of tools, and so informal protocols for aggregating content is github repos were created:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#contents https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/master/create-list.md
This is great because it's very findable for the community by knowing the trope and googling "awesome list <some topic>". It's mostly just a linguistic focus point, which might be cool to play along with :)
A CivicTechTO-affiliated group I'm working with, EDGI, has also started using this sort of tactic. We also link spreadsheets for the more in-depth comparison, which might be useful here as well:
The hope is that we can invite the developer community to participate in maintaining the resource, perhaps linking a "Related Projects" section of their readmes to the shared resource. This will prevent document rot, and ensure the disparate projects have a small shared space in which intersections might be found :)
It would be very interesting to have a prominent steward of this resource, if that steward has enough flexibility to allow the resource to become what the community wishes it to be. It would be really rad if that steward could be government of canada! :)
laurawesley
MaryBethBaker
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ghost
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(le français suit...)
The public engagement team at Privy Council Office, along with our friends and colleagues in the Consultations Community of Practice, need your help!
We want to make a list of existing open source engagement tools that governments can use to meaningfully engage large numbers of their citizens. By large numbers, I mean hundreds of thousands up to millions.
For example, some of you told us about pol.is which originated from Seattle and is being used successfully in Taiwan within the context of a radically transparent approach to public engagement.
For each suggestion, please provide a link to the GitHub repository and a case study where government or non-profit organizations have used the tool. It would also be great if you could say the extent to which they are internationalized (in short: can have interfaces in multiple languages so users can toggle between them) and/or compliant to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Our next step will be to evaluate or group them so we can match each tool with various goals of engagement. We may also try to pilot some of them if we can make them bilingual and accessible, to comply with the Government of Canada Web Standards.
Pouvez-vous nous aider à dresser une liste des outils de mobilisation provenant de sources ouvertes? L’Équipe de mobilisation du public du Bureau du Conseil privé et ses amis et collègues de la Communauté de pratique des consultations ont besoin de vous!
Nous voulons dresser une liste actuelle des outils de mobilisation provenant de sources ouvertes que les gouvernements peuvent consulter pour prendre contact de façon significative avec un grand nombre de citoyens. J’entends par « grand nombre » des centaines de milliers, voire des millions.
Par exemple, certains d’entre vous nous ont parlé de pol.is qui provient de Seattle et qui connaît beaucoup de succès à Taiwan (en anglais seulement) dans le contexte d’une approche radicalement transparente à l’égard de la mobilisation du public (en anglais seulement).
Pour chaque suggestion, veuillez nous fournir le lien au répertoire GitHub ainsi qu’une étude de cas décrivant son utilisation par un gouvernement ou une organisation sans but lucratif. Ce serait également fort apprécié si vous pouviez indiquer dans quelle mesure l’outil est international (bref, l’interface est multilingue permettant aux utilisateurs de basculer entre les choix de langues) ou conforme aux Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus Web (en anglais seulement).
La prochaine étape sera d’évaluer ou de regrouper les outils afin de pouvoir jumeler chacun et les divers objectifs de mobilisation. Nous pourrions également en mettre quelques-uns à l’essai si on peut les rendre bilingues et accessibles afin de respecter la Norme sur l’accessibilité des sites Web.