On October 17 the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will release the final in a series of eight white papers aimed at implementing the recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. The paper—“Assessing Community Information Needs: A Practical Guide” by Richard C. Harwood—proposes four guideposts and nine strategies for communities to assess and build a healthy information...
Over the past couple decades, civic engagement and participation have helped to improve governance and outcomes in the developing world.
To think how much more impact civic engagement could have with concrete evidence to bolster claims of efficacy.
In fact, a new British report says such evidence does exist – it just hasn’t been publicized on a large scale.
