Using technology and innovation: #A1. How would you improve transparency and accountability of public services (eg openness about access to information?)? A1/1 A1/2 A1/3
#A2. Improve participation (accessibility) in public services (such as health, education, use of land, housing)? A2/4 We could improve participation by offering forums where people can participate in policy development without engaging with politics on a large-scale, (i.e. community led, locally-based). We also need to make to make the institutions/processes relevant/relatable with people (e.g. using media), and actively publicise enactment of feedback. #A2/5 Deploy a continuous improvement system that aims to be agile and inclusive, through user-centered problem-solving and feedback loops. Transparency - open by default. Crowd-source priorities to crowd-source solutions. #A2/6 active and iterative community engagement in
B1.How would you improve transparency and accountability to increase public integrity?
#B1/7 - imagine if we had civics in schools that included open priciples and #B1/8 - For transparency Gamified game of thrones and better media (our haiku)
#B1/9 Increasing ability to interact with government at all levels. Humanise the web, and the way people interact with policies – what's the reddit version of having government answer questions? What's the most human version of displaying this information? Information should be presented in ways that people can get the topic quickly, and decide which issues to dig into? How can we have more access, tools & appropriate formatting for policies? A method for referencing an government information (legislation, council decisions, by-laws) in an accessible way. (All legislations as haiku sounds pretty good).
B2.How would you improve participation to help shape public integrity?
#B2/10 Improve participation by offering greater diversity of ways for people to engage, by investing greater resource in approaching and engaging people, and by improving accessibility by catering to different levels on engagement in a clear and simple manner. #B2/11 #B2/12
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#C1 To improve the transparency and accountability of government to effectively manage public resources (including open spaces, the natural environment, water)?
#C1/13 Government should do more collecting and reporting of environmental data and on what they do. They should then provide better ways and incentives for people to participate in the decision-making based on the collected data. Brainstorming:
we should look into ways that are already implemented to learn from that and see how effective it is. what are the issues that matter to people in this context: water quality, access to water, open space in urban centers, how clean and green are we actually and does that perception matches reality better ways to engage directly with government, staying up to date with what's going on with legislation what is local goverments role in this? LTP gathers feedback, but how can we make it easier to participate? Are we actually heard? Make authorities to report back on proposals! better encouraging the public to utilize existing ways and how can we find more effective ways to participate, different times and approaches provide incentive mechanism to encourage participation making more clear how decisions are made, explaining the issue better to people, being honest about the priorities for making the decision for every long term promise, define milestones with accountability built in including reporting ability to have legal action available to hold goverment accountable having a fall back plan when a LTP does not work accountability that extends beyond the term of the current goverment PCE gives an annual state on the environment with independant information, including green house emmission resource management act: might give to much space to economy and less to environment #C1/14 A distributed network of accountability, inspired by OSS projects, that each form a unit of the whole Great UX to show this data eg lawa.org.nz Short feedback loops, is this really working? Define the purpose of releasing Permission to fail, you can't be open without vulnerability. #C1/15 summary Provide rich data visualisations with contextual windows to act as rabbit holes into the information people want to engage with. Remove 'commercially sensitive' as a reason for withholding information, if a company engages with government they should commit to transparency. Create alternative engagement methods for people with low connectivity but primarily focus on contextual granual information about costs - e.g. at the park and curious about the mainteance / capital costs use the small piece of information as a rabbit hole to dive into the larger data ecosystem (e.g. comparing comparable costs in other parks in the city / country) publishing all the RFPs after one is awarded along with justifications about why the winner was selected publish the whole of life costs of each RFP to detect and counter-act low balling with high adjustment costs remove the justification of 'commercially sensitive' for not releasing information track the individual decision makers in government and build up a history of which decisions people were involved in (e.g. a history of how they voted on loomio decisions) track the metrics of each project and see how well it performs against it's targets and start to identify the people who make the best decisions move away from publishing reports in text format towards interactive data visualisations which people can use to discover and analyze data no one reads dense reports they needs to be concise, visual, easy and delightful as soon as data is published the tool is updated e.g. a standard financial visualisation tool which is used across departments
C2. To improve participation (your voice being heard) to effectively manage public resources in the short and long-term.
#C2/16 full notes: https://etherpad.nzoss.org.nz/p/c2-16 ⌒(o＾▽＾o)ノ we must be able to trust that our voice is being heard by the government, be informed about what is happening, and have many spaces to discuss different solutions with various groups of citizens. #C2/17
D1 To improve the transparency and accountability of government to effectively implement the above ICT strategy?
#D1/18 A standard for transparency and accountability from elected representatives as a Human Right to be included in legislation. An official information act equivalent for political transparency and transparency? Who is the person in our government who is the face of our ICT strategy? Someone who can talk tech. What happens when government changes. How to maintain continuity from one government to the next. Transparency of government decision-making would be improved if decisions happened and were documented out in the open, eg on github. Especially important to know the context, the why and how decisions were made. What were the reasons and what weight was given to each reason. #D1/19 They need to use clear and direct, understandable language that has meaning and dosen't create the feeling that you are just openwashing, to make this accessable to the general public and available on social platforms, presented in a visually clear and honest way, as clarity in communication is more important then extensive use of technologies. #D1/20 Transparency requires communications to let people #D1/21 We'd like to see which questions have been asked, answered, and what is underway. we'd like one place to ask questions so that we don't have duplicate handling / confusion We'd like to be able to search which policies are currenty underway We'd like to see governement reaching out to work with communities whom changes will be relevant to If each department prepared a 1page summary each month that was reabale to non-experts, that might help increase accessability
D2. To improve participation through the ICT strategy (your voice being heard)?
#D2/22 #D2/23 Build awareness & participationOffer means to feedback on strategy & demonstrate responsiveness to input. Who knows of the existence of the strategy? Lack of awareness http://www.ssc.govt.nz/node/9657 Strategy claims to be living document but offers no means to interact: need to offer comments, pull reqs, annotations. Doc is CC-BY, so we can put on github Online strategy doc lacking human face, contacts We (civil society/stakehokders) can start a Loomio discussion of strategy? build engagement and grow awareness want to see responsive change based on input received Monitoring of ongoing progress & implementation
#D2/24 We need government to work in an agile and iterative way towards a system that allows for feedback to be considered. For example the existing submissions process, let's open it up and make it transparent. In order for more participation we need to hear each others voices. #D2/25 utilize all tools available to ensure that we are enabling maximum participation - social media, mobile friendly, accessible messaging, etc Government should engage industry social media experts to run participation process, not try and do it themselves. Or just pay loomio to do it. Imagine if every issue that went out for public consultation was accompanied by a two minute animaged video summarising what the issue is about? The younger generation needs infographics, window drawings, tweets and memes.