Community Engagement - British Columbia
Articles and resources about trends and issues in community and citizen engagement initiatives by government in British Columbia.
- Why B.C. isn't using social media for 'cool factor'
- By: Rafael Ruffolo. ComputerWorld Canada, 17 May 2011. "Lac Carling 2011 Video: Tanya Twynstra with the province's Ministry of Citizen Services talks about how B.C. has embraced social tools to interact and get feedback from citizens..."
- B.C. government turns static intranet into a community
- By Susan Oh. Ragan.com, 13 August 2010. "Lessons from the 50-day revamp start with a vision of employee engagement. They came. They saw. They posted. Within the first week of its launch in April last year, more than half of all public service employees in British Columbia flocked to their new, souped-up social intranet, @Work, logging 16,000 unique visits. By month's end, double the number of staff had entered the online fray, leaving twice as many comments than they had on the previous site..."
- Conference explores how citizens participate
- B.C. group hopes to build public support for new voting system, by Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun, May 2, 2008. "The B.C. Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, which recommended a new voting system for the province in 2004, was used as the model for similar assemblies in Ontario and the Netherlands. The chairs of all three assemblies took part in a conference Thursday at the University of B.C. to discuss the issue of large-scale citizen engagement in shaping public policy..."
This category last updated: 17 August 2009