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EngagementHQ News - April 2021

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Tess O'Brien
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Community Champions - 

 

As an Engagement practitioner, you see how powerful transformations occur when people share information and unlock a group's collective knowledge. 

 

Sharing allows us to build upon or challenge our understanding of things. This month, in honour of world creativity and innovation day, we're sharing stories from across the world to help you engage with your other community - the global one.  

 

Flag this one for the next team meeting. Happy sharing!

United Kingdom

Exploring rapid online deliberation

 

Faced with a public health crisis and armed with a willingness to learn, those on the forefront of public engagement in the UK come together to trail a new engagement model: rapid online deliberation.

Canada
Striking a compromise with seasonal communities

Cottage culture is a longstanding summertime staple in Canada, but as idyllic as it may seem, the term invokes various complex relationships to land and local communities, calling on leadership to facilitate complex conversations.

United States
Modifying the IAP2 spectrum to meet the needs of community

 

A growing presence of Recreation Vehicles (RVs) littering the streets of Longmont, Colorado, kicked off a practical community involvement framework in 2001 that’s been evolving ever since.

Australia
Net-zero community-based emissions by 2050

 

Wollongong, a coastal city south of Sydney, set its sights on net-zero operational emissions by 2030 and net-zero community-based emissions by 2050 - we take you through their approach and invite you to imagine your own.

New Zealand
A budgeting Balancing Act

 

Each year, cities face tough budgeting decisions. Add a pandemic to the mix, and importance is amplified. Wellington City Councils holistic approach successfully communicated the city's priorities at a time of need.

Global
50 years of International Public Participation Models

 

And lastly, your essential public engagement resource. A look at 60 international public participation models dating back fifty years to Arnstein’s influential ‘Ladder of Citizen Participation’.
 

Featured Client Projects

Bundaberg

 

Bundaberg is partnering with residents to plant one million trees. With the help of an Esri iFrame embed, the community can enter and track planted trees via an interactive map.

See their Project

Waimakariri

 

Waimakariri District Council's Draft Long Term Plan demonstrates great use of video for information sharing and participation encouragement and lots of assets for an informed community.

 

See their Project
 

Bang the Table Australasian office is based in Carlton, Victoria, on the lands of the Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging across Australia.

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