These principles have been taken from the morning sessions and some later notes. Please add more Principles, sub-points, or solutions where you see fit.
Empowerment
- Nourish grassroots participation but don't direct or control it
- Help ease the transition of social technologies & Understand the integrated relationships
- move from the request to access paradigm (push vs pull)
- Corporate responsibility & political engagement: training and education for employees
- Share success stories
- Cherish diverse voices
- Bigger than one person -- motivate others, push for more
Leadership
- Willing to be a heretic
- Know what you want
- Stand for something (not against)
- Be clear and consistent
Transparency
- Freedom of information, tech problems should not be an excuse
Dialogue
- participatory politics & citizen engagement
- consultation & Deep Dialogue
- Two-way communication requires flexibility and allowance for making mistakes
- Be genuine!
Access
- Citizens as lobbyists
- coordination
- access to politicians
- resources
- online/offline
- Expanding of technological enfranchisement
Design/Experience
- social innovation & problem solving
- foster environment of participation and engagement
- make things fun
- show actualy feedback of actions, let people know they matter
- Make things meaningful
Scales of concern local/national/global
- We vote locally, but are concerned globally and nationally