Workshops 2015

Our participants are very much in control of the content of this event. In 2015 we invited you to share your ideas for workshops in the few weeks before the event. Participants could take part in four different workshops on the day.

Here are the workshops that participants were able to choose from during each session. Please give them a read – they’re all great.

Workshop session one

• Doing devolution without permission

• Democratic Content – Local By Default, Engaging By Design

• Digital democracy: A panacea for youth disengagement?

• Open Local Government: How can it be spread? 

• What is the ideal local?

 

Workshop session two

• 20 Ways to Connect Open Data and Local Democracy

• Ballot for Bondi Beach

• Participatory Budgeting
  

• The disconnect between democracy and services 

 

Workshop session three

• Digital Local Democracy – The 21st Century councillor

• Experimenting with participation, lean startup approach

• A public values approach for using digital technologies to enhance local democracy

 

Workshop session four

• The Council of 2045

• User Stories for Local Democracy

• Digital democracy and deliberation

• Can civil society organisations offer local government any ideas on citizen engagement?

 

The workshop challenge

We also set all our workshop hosts a big challenge. The participants in each workshop were encouraged to come up with three new ideas for redesigning local democracy. At the end of the day we brought everyone together for our Ideas Bazaar, where we shared our ideas and began to exchange the resources and skills to take them forward.

Thank you very much to everyone who accepted the challenge.