[@OKau] Fwd: SISR Seminar: Thursday, 13 August 2015 - Crowdsourced policymaking: The motivations, expectations and profile of the crowd: 12:30-1:30pm

[Angela Daly]

Hi Lee,

We are just organising this talk in Melbourne - you might want to contact
Dr Aitamurto directly to see if she is coming to Sydney too!

Angela

On 7 August 2015 at 13:11, Lee Wallace <leeimageconsultant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks so much Angela, Is there a Sydney talk as well? I'm at UTS. regards
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> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Angela Daly <angelacdaly at gmail.com>
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>> Dear all,
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>> This event may be of interest to you and your networks. It's free and
>> open to the public.
>>
>> Thanks,
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>> Angela
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>> Swinburne Institute for Social Research - Seminar Series
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>> Presenter: Dr Tanja Aitamurto, Stanford University
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>> Title: Crowdsourced policymaking: The motivations, expectations and
>> profile of the crowd
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>> Date: Thursday, 13 August 2015
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>> Time: 12:30-1:30pm
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>> Venue: Penang Room, Library Conference Room, Hawthorn campus
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>> Crowdsourcing in policymaking is becoming a more common method for civic
>> engagement and knowledge search, and it is used both by local and national
>> governments. In crowdsourced policymaking, the government invites citizens
>> to contribute to a policymaking process and asks them to share their ideas
>> for the policy. For instance, several federal agencies in the United States
>> have used crowdsourcing in policy reforms, Iceland applied crowdsourcing in
>> its constitution reform process, and the House of Representatives in Brazil
>> have used crowdsourcing in policy reforms. Despite the growing popularity
>> of the method, only a little is known about the crowd and its experience
>> with participating in policymaking. In this talk I will examine the
>> profile, drivers and expectations of the crowd by showing case studies of
>> crowdsourced policymaking from Finland and the United States.
>>
>> Dr Tanja Aitamurto Deputy Director and a Brown Fellow (postdoctoral) at
>> the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the School of Engineering at
>> Stanford. She examines how collective intelligence, whether gathered by
>> crowdsourcing, crowdfunding or co-creation, impacts journalism, governance
>> and product design, particularly media innovations.
>>
>>
>> Tanja is the author of Crowdsourcing for Democracy: New Era in
>> Policy-Making. She has lead the design and implementation of the Finnish
>> Experiment, a pioneering case in crowdsourcing policymaking. She advises
>> and studies Open Government projects in several countries, the projects
>> including topics such as participatory budgeting and crowdsourced
>> legislation. She has attended meetings and given talks about her research
>> in the White House, the Wikimedia Foundation, OECD, the Council of Europe
>> and in several Parliaments and Governments, including those of Canada,
>> Austria and Finland. More about her work at www.tanjaaitamurto.com
>>
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