In my ongoing research I recently fell over Sherry Arnstein’s “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” that has managed to be referenced some 2538 times since it was initially published in 1969. If it’s new to you too, I recommend a read, it’s very “sixties” and sent me back to my more idealistic youth, but the “ladder” is still highly appropriate.
There’s a little bit of background to the late Sherry Arnstein by David Wilcox at Partnerships Online.
The blogger is Mick Phythian, a Research Associate at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K. and former ICT Manager at Ryedale District Council in North Yorkshire, England. He was also a founder member of the Local CIO Council and regional Chair of Socitm.
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He is not the Great Emancipator! The Great Emancipator was President Abraham Lincoln. The blog is so-called because some people perceive e-government, transformational government or, heaven forbid, government to be the emancipator of us all...
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