On the 29th and 30th of June 2016, I attended the ‘Winds of Change’ New Zealand Symposium. The conference started off with a bus tour of the Meridian West Wind…
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The internet is awash with plenty of free tools but unfortunately many are not that good and can result in a waste of time. I was pleasantly surprised when I came…
IAP2 launched their new ‘Quality Assurance Standards for Community and Stakeholder Engagement’ at the IAP2 conference in Perth last week. The overall objective of the standards is to provide a set of ‘standardised…
According to new research published by Associate Professor Jennifer Lees-Marshment from the University of Auckland, New Zealand needs another government department to be able to help us further engage…
PublicVoice is committed to being an expert in the area of public consultation, online public participation and digital engagement. Recently, we began working on new leading research into the area…
We have a new case study! In August, 2013 the Ministry of Business, Employment and Innovation (MBIE) ran it’s second ‘Meet the Buyer’ event in Auckland. Past events had been…
The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) and the Victoria University of Wellington School of Government (VUW) have developed a new collaboration site called ‘NZ Online Engagement Community’ The site…
The folks at the PewResearchCenter have just released a research report looking at ‘Civic Engagement in the Digital Age’. It’s a comprehensive study and the key findings are listed below. One of the neat…
Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority have been a key Citizen Space user since October 2012. Outlined below are 3 ways in which Citizen Space has helped internal and external stakeholders…