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Really useful resource on how to talk about climate & cost of living crisis

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Really useful resource on how to talk about climate & cost of living crisis

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLL2v0ags0M

Messaging this Moment is a new report on how to effectively connect the climate and cost of living crises for a broad public audience.

These issues have been increasingly pitted against each other, as if in competition. Without our own values-led stories, the more we try to myth-bust, correct and debunk, the more we risk reinforcing the idea that there is a trade-off between the two.

Which is why we need our own effective shared stories across movements.

Download Messaging this Moment here.

It includes:

- 3 stories that work across political divides

- A do’s & don’ts table

- Ways you can pivot the conversation away from unhelpful places

It was created with input from a group of messaging experts from across the environment, social justice and new economy movements. The messages went through three rounds of polling with Opinium.

These messages aren’t attached to specific calls to action – please use them and make them your own! We hope they will provide fertile soil for a wide range of issues. And please do share with anyone who is communicating on these issues whether in movements, media or markets.

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Create a digital toolkit for people to organise their own events (online and real world)

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Create a digital toolkit for people to organise their own events (online and real world)

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At Wilsome we have been helping our community to connect and engage around the challenges of the climate and nature crisis.  We are seeing a significant appetite for self-organised events and opportunities to exchange ideas. There is a gap in support for these from local authorities.

One of the barriers is that people often lack the basic tools / structure to make events happen and so it can feel like an overwhelming task. The value that Wilsome has been able to bring to the process is, obviously, our time and perhaps just as importantly our understanding of how to make a simple event plan, contact key stakeholders, engage them with a straighforward ask that is easy for them to say yes to, organise logistics using simple digital documents, make use of collaborative digital communication platforms like Zoom and Google Docs, and ensure that everyone knows what is happening when and what their role is.

We want to find a partner to test and develop a very simple digital  "toolkit" and "how to" resource which could be shared with people in other communities to help them organise events of this kind where they are.
More information in this short set of slides here

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1STdlv35qT2cc7xq1BkzfRurKIK1uBus2Y4S4TcIibbo/edit?usp=sharing

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Idea in outline - digital toolkit for community climate events

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Using all methods available to take the community on a journey with you. Face to face meetings, newsletters, digital engagement etc. We held interactive and informative webinars on different topics through lockdown too

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If you'd like to have a look at our website, please visit hello.vocaleyes.org or get in touch sarah.h@vocaleyes.org

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Seems that recycling and tree planting most engaged activities with some on food regarding stopping meat but the big hitters are stopping the use of fossil fuels in home and transport - this is where we need to put more focus and funding support. 

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Seems that recycling and tree planting most engaged activities with some on food regarding stopping meat but the big hitters are stopping the use of fossil fuels in home and transport - this is where we need to put more focus and funding support. 

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Hi everyone, if anyone would like a more in depth tour around Pennard on the Vocaleyes platform and a chat about the climate plan then please get in touch:

susanrodaway@pennardcc.gov.wales

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Series of events across the community - like the street party idea

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Series of events across the community - like the street party idea

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Outreach events with various engagement opportunities from art to voting on projects and post it note commentry.

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Outreach events with various engagement opportunities from art to voting on projects and post it note commentry.

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Popular ideas might not actually reduce emissions

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Popular ideas might not actually reduce emissions

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From the discussion: "sometimes the ideas generated don't result in as much reductions in emissions  as other activities being planned - do you have anything on linking engagement/better informed public to increased positive impact on climate change."

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In-person space to chat about what the local council is doing. Chance to share the brand, and online resources.

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Great examples from Cara, in Wiltshire. Opportunity to find out what the local authority is planning, to feed into decisions and strategy, see businesses operating in the space, and also an outlet for arts / creative activities.

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Nuanced ideas that require more understanding or deeper research could be left behind if there's a community voting system.

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Danger of ‘organised voting’ to sway a decision

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Danger of ‘organised voting’ to sway a decision

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Example Susan shared, of a vote for a skate park. But useful to remember that these ideas aren’t all necessarily competing, and people who are brought to the platform to vote for one idea, might spot other things they could contribute to.

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"We recruited interested members of the community to form a steering group formed of councillors and members of the community to put together a climate action plan" - also useful when the plan needs refreshing or updating

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Participatory decision-making over budget spend

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Participatory decision-making over budget spend

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Using the Vocaleyes platform

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Pennard’s community engagement space on VocalEyes!

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Pennard’s community engagement space on VocalEyes!

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https://www.vocaleyes.org/vocaleyes/group/index/id/3502

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At the full council meeting of Pennard Community Council held Thursday 21st July, the council resolved to hold two community "Coffee, Cake, Participate" events, in September, one will be held in Pennard and another in Kittle.

The purpose of these meetings is to give residents the opportunity to meet their new community councillors following the recent election and encourage residents to have their say on what positive changes they'd like to see in Pennard. In addition to this, there are two pots of funding available to those ideas which come from the community and are supported by them. One of £5,000 for ideas to improve the facilities and amenities for young people in the community and another £5,000 for environmental projects. Further information can be found here: https://vocaleyes.org/vocaleyes/budgets/index/grp/3502

As soon as we have dates and venues confirmed, we will update you. In the meantime, please continue to use the Vocaleyes platform to add your ideas and rate those already on there as this engagement will also be used to inform the allocation of funding to projects.

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Vocaleyes Digital Democracy Ltd. Company Number 08996603

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At the full council meeting of Pennard Community Council held Thursday 21st July, the council resolved to hold two community "Coffee, Cake, Participate" events, in September, one will be held in Pennard and another in Kittle.

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Hosting conversations / events in council-operated spaces

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Hosting conversations / events in council-operated spaces

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As demonstrated by our speaker this morning, Ariane from Wiltshire Council – running engagement events in schools and libraries.

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https://research.mysociety.org/publications/participatory-budgeting

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A meta-level review

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Rebecca Rumbul, Alex Parsons, Jen Bramley

Much has been written about participatory budgeting over the last 30 years. From humble beginnings in Brazil, it has swept over the globe and is considered by many institutions and governments to be an ideal method of tangibly engaging citizens in the operation of their communities. It has, however, developed beyond the original Porto Alegre model, and the evolution, exportation into different cultural landscapes, and digitisation of the model have posed new challenges for implementers, innovators and supporters. This report, conducted primarily for the Hewlett Foundation with the involvement of the Omidyar Network, examines some of those challenges. The research was conducted from a meta-level perspective, seeking not to replicate the many excellent case-studies on individual instances of participatory budgeting, and instead identifying where additional support for participatory budgeting could be targeted to benefit the community of practice as a whole.

This research identified significant challenges in the participatory budgeting sphere, from a very common lack of goals to be achieved through participatory budgeting exercises, to very weak network links and peer support for implementers, to the frustrations of the exercises as a result of political corruption or subversion. The migration to managing participatory budgeting digitally presents the very real risk of the process becoming gentrified, and is just one example of the consequences of scale in participatory budgeting only being achieved at the expense of disenfranchising the most under-represented.

Contents

1. Summary

2. Introduction

3. Problem statement

4. Research methods

5. Case studies

1. Kenya

2. Mexico

6. Thematic findings

1. A lack of clear vision

2. Poor quality of impact / evaluation research

3. Risks of top-down prescribed participatory budgeting programmes

4. Funding of participatory budgeting

5. Political vulnerability and corruption

6. Monitoring

7. Costs of managing opposition to participatory budgeting

8. Diffusion, networking and knowledge sharing

9. Longterm issue for networks

10. The World Bank influence

11. Going digital

7. Further research and recommendations

1. Recommendation 1

2. Recommendation 2

3. Recommendation 3

4. Recommendation 4

8. Conclusion

9. About mySociety

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Rumbul, R., Parsons, A. and Bramley, J. (2018). Participatory Budgeting. [online] mySociety Research. Available at: https://research.mysociety.org/publications/participatory-budgeting [Accessed 21 Sep 2022].

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A meta-level review Read Online Plain Text Kindle .mobi Kindle Download PDF Rebecca Rumbul, Alex Parsons, Jen Bramley Much has been written about participatory budgeting over the last 30 years. From humble beginnings in Brazil, it has swept over the globe and is considered by many institutions and governments to be an ideal method of tangibly engaging citizens in the operation of their communities.

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mySociety report: The State of Digital Public Engagement

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mySociety report: The State of Digital Public Engagement

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https://research.mysociety.org/publications/state-digital-public-engagement

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Literature Review

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Rebecca Rumbul

As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

Contents

1. Introduction and key themes

2. Interactivity and legitimacy

3. Policy silos

4. Consumer vs Citizen

5. Forms of digital engagement

6. Crowdsourcing civics

7. Social Media interactions with local authorities

8. Local authority websites

9. Network/Digital governance

10. Trust

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Rumbul, R. (2019). The State of Digital Public Engagement. [online] mySociety Research. Available at: https://research.mysociety.org/publications/state-digital-public-engagement [Accessed 21 Sep 2022].

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Literature Review Read Online Read online Plain Text Kindle .mobi Download PDF Rebecca Rumbul As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

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mySociety report: Digital Tools for Citizens Assemblies

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mySociety report: Digital Tools for Citizens Assemblies

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https://research.mysociety.org/publications/digital-tools-citizens-assemblies

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Alex Parsons

This report is a result of mySociety's research into how digital tools can be used as part of the process of a Citizens' Assembly.

We reviewed how Citizens' Assemblies to date have approached technology, and explored where lessons can be learned from other deliberative or consultative activities.

While there is no unified Citizens' Assembly digital service, there are a number of different tools that can be used to enhance the process - and that most of these are generic and well-tested products and services. We also tried to identify where innovative tools could be put to new uses, while always bearing in mind the core importance of the in-person deliberative nature of assemblies.

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Potential uses of digital tools

3. Bringing the public in

1. Question forming

2. Public submissions

3. Finding experts and stakeholders

4. Facilitating assemblies

1. Attendance Management

2. Voting

3. Argument representation

4. Group selection

5. Including a wider range of experts

6. Making materials available

7. Online deliberation

5. Sharing products

1. Live streaming

2. Sharing evidence

3. Sharing conclusions and tracking implementation

4. Communicating particpiants' experiences

5. Allowing feedback from non-participants

6. Conclusion and acknowledgements

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Parsons, A. (2019). Digital Tools for Citizens Assemblies. [online] mySociety Research. Available at: https://research.mysociety.org/publications/digital-tools-citizens-assemblies [Accessed 21 Sep 2022].

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The narrative has changed from 'you can do these few small things' (recycle, cut down on plastics etc) to 'change needs to come from the top'. Yet governments appear not to be leading the way. Recycling feels pointless when new oil fields are being opened, etc.

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Add your contact details here – but remember this is a public board.

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