A few of us travelled from London to a ChangeCamp event in Toronto Tuesday night to help design a civic engagement toolkit: We see the municipal elections in 2010 as an excuse to gather people together to have real dialogues about the future of our communities. We believe that open source approaches can enable those conversations [...]
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When Larry Cornies tweeted, “Attention, citizen journalists: Grand Theatre (London, Ont.) annual meeting,” for a moment I thought he was talking about an annual meeting of citizen journalists… “Oh?” I thought to myself, “I wonder who put that together?” No… Once I regained my literacy I realized the annual meeting was in fact for The [...]
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by OpenConceptual on 07-12-2009
in mission
Just sort of a brainstorm here, following up on some of my relatively more youthful attempts to outline what this is all about: Draft Enterprise Model The Practice of Theory The other day I jotted down a few points — trying to distill the underlying mission of this amorphous enterprise. It has a few different [...]
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