What are the Potentials and Realities for the Kind of Dialogue that Could Lead to More Citizen-Centric Services? (15H)
Group Five Attendees (16G)
Facilitator: Alex Members: Roz, Elizabeth,Karl,Bob,Steve,Linda (16H)
Potentials (16I)
Health care: dialogue between who decides, who controls the process and the community; how do we share knowledge about best (effective) practices? How could these workshops be extended beyond the Beltway? (16T)
Less Bureaucracy -- of the people, by the people; gaining feeling that it's our government (16U)
Transparency = knowledge disclosures that can be unified, accessible to all sides (16V)
Creating a GOV_CommunitiesNetwork that brings people together across organizational boundaries. Can this network, or tiers of networks, provide a space for dialogue, conversations? (16W)
Sharing Knowledge = disclosing the underlying heuristics (could be embarrassed if they were revealed) (16X)
How small groups can work more effectively; team collaboration to transcend the immature rugged individualism (16Y)
Once you've defined 'the problem', what do you do next? Vision for creating a dialogue among stakeholders (16J)
What does the change need to be? More discussion about paradigm shifts (revolutions?). (16Z)
Imbalance of power among people (citizens), government, and corporations (what about non-profits / non-governmental organizations)? Issues around equality, or equal access to resources? (174)
Metaphors: government organizations as machines. What about agencies as organisms (other metaphors) (175)
Distinguishing between 'right' and 'entitlement' (17B)
Access (177)
Voice (178)
Images: how can we organize/filter information. the role of the 'fifth estate' (media). Leery about technically-imposed solutions (agents). Issues about fragmentation (what Howard Rheingold refers to as 'hypersegmentation') (176)
Transparency (179)
Tools (17A)
Realities (16K)
How do we deal with bureaucracies -- move beyond the status quo? Bureaucracies are stable organizations 'optimized' to be resistant to change (170)