Poem by Audrey Tang “New Zealand and New Zealanders will save us all”. Douglas Rushkoff, the media theorist and writer, tweeted this after addressing the Open Source: Open Society conference 2016 (OS//OS) in Wellington, New Zealand by video link from the United States. At the same event, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a former NZ Prime Minster…
I’m chuffed! Seven years after starting work on my first project as an engagement specialist at the Wellington City Council and 1 year after leaving the organisation, the Town Belt project has been completed. Good quality policy takes a while! This is a post for public engagement junkies. It is offered to those who are…
When I stood on the stage at the IAP2 (Australasia) conference 2014 in Sydney to talk about the Wellington City Council’s Town Belt Project, only 2 of the project’s 3 stages were complete – and yet the questions from the floor were mainly about stage 3: creating new legislation. I want to use this post…
PEPtalk is about the public’s involvement in decisions that affect them. In short, it’s about politics, democracy and citizenship. Politics doesn’t just happen in Parliaments and Council chambers and it’s not just the domain of elected representatives, their officials, political parties, the media and other pundits. And it most definitely isn’t just about voting. Politics…