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Title: Communications Infrastructure as Governance Tools


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Communications Infrastructure as Governance Tools
  • David Bruce
  • Mount Allison University

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Outline
  • Context for Communication and Governance
  • Community Capacity and Role of Communication
  • The NRE Project
  • Research Findings
  • Participation in On-Line Chats
  • Community Newsletters
  • Discussion

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Context for Communication
  • Web, oil, glue
  • ICTs increased interest in whats possible
  • Communication, civic engagement, and public
    participation
  • Participatory, one-way communication from
    council, one-way from citizens
  • ICTs often thought of as creating a new
    meaningful way for participatory decision-making
    and community learning
  • Menu of tools for municipalities and others
    related to governance
  • Traditional (newspapers, newsletters, bulletin
    boards, bulk mail)
  • Internet-based (Web, e-mail, chat rooms,
    electronic town halls)
  • Media (radio, TV)
  • Personal communication

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CAPACITY MODEL
  • RELATIONS
  • Market
  • Bureaucratic
  • Associative
  • Communal
  • OUTCOMES
  • Economic wealth
  • Social and political inclusion
  • Social Cohesion
  • Environmental security
  • Social and self-worth
  • Health
  • Personal security
  • ASSETS
  • Economic Capital
  • Human Skills and Abilities
  • Social Capital
  • Natural Resources

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Participation in On-Line Chats
  • 22 sites
  • Participants in 9 key topic areas (identified in
    earlier components of the research)
  • Facilitated, on-line learning chats or seminars
    using a free Internet chat-room
  • Participant assessments and evaluations
  • Chat transcripts (17) and messages

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Participants (26)
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Experience and Reaction
9
The Content 17 Chats
  • Sharing ideas knowledge in the chats - 13
  • Networking with others after the chat - 8
  • Usefulness of the discussion 7
  • Using the ideas from the discussion - 6
  • Using the technology in other settings - 4

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Community Newsletters
  • Lot 16 PEI unincorporated place near Summerside
  • Mostly long-term families, but some new
    residential development
  • No local government or communication tools
  • Introduced a community newsletter in 2004
  • All volunteer effort
  • Purpose enhance communication, information
    sharing, and build sense of community

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Readership
  • 87 read it the day it arrives
  • 53 share it with family who do not live in the
    community
  • 34 share it with friends who do not live in the
    community

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Discussion
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Communication as Capacity Assets
  • Tools and resources Do they facilitate effective
    communication? By and for whom?
  • New skills and abilities may be required, may
    be learned
  • New forms of social capital may be required,
    may be created

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Communication as Capacity Relations
  • Associative in nature
  • Newsletter oil and glue?
  • Chat rooms - linking to a new network for
    learning the web metaphor

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Communication as Capacity Outcomes
  • Economic development
  • Social cohesion
  • Sense of community
  • Participatory decision-making?
  • More tools and resources may emerge
  • (More effective) Communication as an outcome

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Impact and Evaluation of Communication
  • Measurement
  • Attribution of impact
  • Oil for the conversation to happen
  • Fishtank metaphor?
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