November 3, 2008 at 1:42 pm · Filed under news and events and tagged: collaborative planning, deliberative tools, online, remote
The Six Revisions Weblog recently published an article reviewing 15 free tools to help you facilitate remote/web-based collaboration which, although geared towards project management, could easily be applied to planning activities. The tools cover a range of applications from basic whiteboarding, mind-mapping, participatory editing, brainstorming and remote conferencing tools, right through to fully-featured project management applications.
See the article here.
Wikipedia provides a series of useful discussions of online collaborative planning software tools as well as a more in-depth review of collaborative software in general.
August 20, 2008 at 12:13 am · Filed under publications and tagged: collaborative planning, social learning
Rip Rap Edition 33 – Community learning
The lastest edition of RipRap: The River and Riparian Management Newsletter published by Lands and Water Australia discusses the importance of community learning in river management. Community learning and development is about supporting people in communities to identify and understand issues that are important to them, and providing them with opportunities to take action on those issues. This issue of RipRap features articles from across the Land & Water Australia (LWA) portfolio that support researchers working with a range of different “communities” to improve NRM outcomes.
This edition includes an article by John Mackenzie from the Collaborative Water Planning Project, entitled Working together for a change: collaborative planning for water reform.
Download a copy of Rip Rap Edition 33
August 18, 2008 at 4:14 am · Filed under related research and tagged: collaborative planning, international, monitoring and evaluation, tools for engagement
The aim of the HarmoniCOP project (2002 -2005) was to increase the understanding of participatory river basin management planning (RBMP) in Europe. RBMP is the integrated cross-sectoral planning and management of river basins if necessary across political and administrative borders. The project’s objective was to generate practical information about participation processes in river basin management and to support the implementation of the public participation provisions of the European Water Framework Directive.
Find out more about HarmoniCOP here.
