Citizen Panel 2009 Press Conference Rob Hyslop CITYTV and Councillor Ben Henderson
Citizen Panel 2009 Press Conference Media with Councillor Ben Henderson
Citizen Panel 2009 Press Conference CityTV Rob Hyslop with Member of the Citizen Panel
The Citizen Panel: Community engagement through public deliberation (continued) The Citizen Panel was a new approach to public involvement in Canada. Although the budgets for social housing in the city of Toronto and for family services in the city of nearby Guelph are decided, in part, through public deliberation, neither city has taken the broad approach to budget priorities represented by the Citizen Panel project, in which large-scale budget priorities were considered. Outside of Canada, the city of Porto Alegre in Brazil provides an example of public participation in civic budgeting that has been successfully operating since 1989 (http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/ 146/canadianbudgeting.html.).
University of Alberta students, graduates, and staff helped organize the Citizen Panel and facilitate small-group discussions
The Faculty of Extension Clockwise from left: Eileen Ratke, Master’s Student, Communications and Technology | Carla Ickert, Master’s Student, Psychology | Dan Webb, Doctoral Student, Political Philosophy | Ryan Bizuk, Undergraduate Student, at the University of Alberta has been Political Science | Jim Klingle, Consultant, Lead Facilitator | Lisa Jaster | J.D. Crookshanks, Doctoral Student, associated with the concept and Rural Economy | Eva Bogdan, City-Region Studies Centre | Jen Glenday, Master’s Student, Communications and practices of public deliberation since Technology | Asia Wehbi, Master’s Student, Communications and Technology | Mary Han Lu, Master’s Student, Communications and Technology | Albana Zeko, Graduate, Communications and Technology the time of E.A. Corbett. In the first half of the twentieth century, Corbett Not pictured: Tammy Fallowfield, Graduate, Communications and Technology pioneered the use of radio broadcasting Aaron Rankin, Undergraduate Student, Political Science | Ryan Bizuk, Undergraduate Student, Political Science | Nick Van Duyvenbode, Government of Canada for creating learning opportunities about public issues of importance for citizens. Small-group discussions were organized in association with the radio broadcasts in homes and community Centre’s main areas of activity will be based on the Faculty of Extension’s centres across Canada. The Citizen Panel, too, used communications core activities of learning, discovery, and citizenship. The will carry out research technologies to broaden access and increase awareness. A video version to enhance discovery and learning associated with public-involvement of the information resources used by the Citizen Panel was produced, projects, identify appropriate methods and practices for application in publicand key information about the Panel’s discussions was posted on the involvement activities, and create opportunities for learning about public web. The Citizen Panel planning team also hosted a Facebook group involvement for undergraduate and graduate students in support of the discussion for the public, and 12 hours of the Panel’s discussions were value mentioned in the University of Alberta’s Dare to Discover document: broadcast live by webstreaming. “enlightened service that builds citizenship.” The Citizen Panel’s success has prepared the way for the subsequent establishment of the Centre for Public Involvement, which is a partnership to be operated and funded jointly by the City of Edmonton and the University of Alberta. The Centre’s purpose will be to engage in research and development in support of improved public-involvement practices and processes. The
Several University of Alberta students and graduates helped to plan and organize the Citizen Panel. They also facilitated the Panel’s small-group discussions. Tammy Fallowfield, a graduate of Extension’s Master of Arts in Communications and Technology program who works at Edmonton Economic Development, was the moderator of the Citizen Panel.
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